authentication without interruptions

Securitydoesn’t need to

interrupt your

workflow

Interruptionsto our ‘workflows’

• create errors• cost money• build stress• destroy creativity

RememberKubla KhanColeridge’s romantic poem...

In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.

RememberKubla KhanColeridge’s romantic poem...

In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.

...it was never finished...a man from the village of Porlock interrupted Coleridge in 1797 to discuss his garden and on his return... Coleridge realised he couldn’t remember the flow. And the poem remains unfinished...

Technology is the 21st century ‘man from Porlock’

• from the tools used to keep knowledge flowing,...e-mail, mobile phones, IM, RSS etc...

• to the security measures used to control ‘flow’• they constantly interrupt knowledge workers,

actively... or ...passively

Access Technology ‘Past’

Technology alters workflowsa medical example

Technology alters workflowsa medical example

Access Technology ‘Past’Access Technology ‘Present’

Access Technology ‘Past’

Technology alters workflowsa medical example

Access Technology ‘Present’

Access Technology ‘Future’

Next Gen?Strong

Multi Factor AuthenticationNatural User Interface

No Passwords

why do we care

?

why do we careInterruptions are costlyInterruptions cost US business $588b pa in 2005The cost of not paying attention, Jonathan Spira (2005)

Interrupted workflow during medical administration was a contributing factor to the 6.6% medication error rate.Tissot, Intensive care med (1999)

106 medication errors per 1000 patient daysPrinciples and practices of medication safety in the ICU (2006)

78% of serious adverse events due to medication errors.Rothschild et al The critical care safety study ?

Technologyshould help stopthe interruptions

Introducing eGonatural authentication technology that fits to human workflowsAuthentication by touch• strong multi factor authentication (MFA) • initiated by any part of a users body (and not just fingers)• works through clothing (e.g. gloves and shoes)

eGo supports the rest• credentials verified• applications accessed

workflow interruptions reduced• frustration & stress• costs• errors...

Summary• Interruptions are costly• Technology interrupts• Current authentication

methods actively interrupt• eGo promises to authenticate

without the interruptions...• ... which may even save lives

Discover morewww.ego-project.eu

www.gemalto.com/egomark@milbanke.com

eGoauthentification sans interruptions