The AuthenWare Technology algorithm, being within the biometrics category, allows companies to easily enact an additional layer of security by combining their usual identification mechanisms (entering an user ID and a password) with a new, highly secure authentication capability utilizing Keystroke Dynamics techniques. In AuthenWare Technology, any number of fields can be tested for Keystroke Dynamics and they can be configured differently for each application within the company. This feature allows our users to test either the user name and password or any text field or passphrase that may be needed later on for higher security configurations. Each authentication test increases the system’s accuracy and, therefore, the user’s security.

AuthenWare Technology does not replace your existing identification method(s). Instead, allows users to authenticate themselves as normal through a user and a password. AuthenWare Technology then verifies if it is the correct user entering those fields by comparing the way that they typed them and as by comparing a number of other user behavioral traits to a behavioral pattern that it has created for the user and has stored. In this way, AuthenWare Technology does not prevent identity theft, but rather, it just makes it useless.

In addition to testing the users’ typing rhythm itself, the AuthenWare Technology engine also detects “singularities”. A singularity is something generally considered unique or one of a kind. AuthenWare Technology detects and understands singularities related to those specific characteristics of a person’s typing that are invariant (meaning that they have a deviation from the mean below a certain target). Our research has identified that interrogating these singularities helps to accurately identify a person’s “uniqueness” in much the same way as a birthmark or a mole. Singularity detection and comprehension distinguishes AuthenWare Technology from many of its competitors by creating an additional level of trustworthiness for our customers.

An additional capability of AuthenWare Technology is its behavioral heuristics inference engine. AuthenWare Technology utilizes this important engine to infer whether a person attempting to authenticate is the rightful user based on behaviors such as the use of the mouse, tab key, return key, preferred browser and browser version, preferred times of operation, number of mistakes they make, and many others behaviors. This robust level of sophistication helps AuthenWare Technology to render useless any attempt to gain unauthorized access to a system or data even if the intruder is using accurate credentials.

AuthenWare Technology allows the security administrator to configure default security at the company, application and individual user levels. The system automatically warns the administrator if a user setting is “less secure” than that of the application or company levels. Furthermore, AuthenWare Technology supports the selection of select security levels per transaction, providing that it is a “more secure” option than any of the above.