A smart authentication solution developed by Encap Security has been selected by Norway's mobile identity solution, BankID, for a biometric app pilot.The pilot will explore in-app authentication for BankID, which is now used by 80% of all adults in Norway to prove their identity to various organisations across Norway, including all government departments.IN a statement, Encap noted that BankID has achieved this near ubiquity by simplifying customer identification, onboarding, and ongoing use of services across ecommerce, finance and telecoms among others. BankID currently uses a combination of hardware-based authentication (key fobs) and one-time-password generation for authentication.By integrating Smarter Authentication, merchants and integrators of BankID can experience the simpler, more flexible and secure multi-factor authentication without these additional codes and pieces of hardware before the release this autumn."The launch of BankID in 2004 confirmed Norway's lead when it came to using technology to improve banking and identity," said Frode Beckmann Nilsen, Head of Development at BankID Norway. "Now we want to make sure we remain ahead of the curve by creating a new experience – dropping the need to carry around key fobs or copy and paste from another app – while also ensuring the highest security standards. Each bank will provide an app and introduce it to the customers in their own pace. Our purpose with this Encap-app has been to provide a useful showroom for our next future proof BankID-experience.""BankID is an incredibly popular, highly advanced system that makes signing up and using to multiple services across Norway simple and easy," said Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen, CEO, Encap Security. "With Norwegians increasingly accessing information and transacting on their smart devices BankID needs to evolve to deliver the experience users are demanding today, and the capabilities they will expect tomorrow. By adopting a mobile-first approach BankID will cement Norway's place as the world leader in digital identity."
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