Invisible two factor authentication – Identifying the legitimate user

Behavioral Biometrics

What is Behavioral Biometrics?

Manage fraud risk and improve user experience with Arvato Financial Solutions’ Behavioral Biometrics solution.

Recognise the legitimate user – continuously and without friction

Authenticating the legitimate user protects customer accounts from fraudsters. Unlike conventional authentication methods which rely on what the user knows (e.g. passwords) or has (e.g. tokens), Behavioral Biometrics focuses primarily on the analysis of physical and behavioral parameters, which can’t be stolen. It has no hardware or personal data dependency and is PSD2 compliant.

Acting as an invisible two factor authentication, Behavioral Biometrics ensures a frictionless authentication process and prevents fraud:

Identity fraud (through methods such as phishing, social engineering and automated attacks to conduct)
Account takeover (when someone uses another person’s account with stolen credentials)
Payment fraud (to protect the payment information linked to the users accounts)
Automated attacks (recognizing non-human device activity e.g. BOTS (network of infected devices controlled by unautorized third party), RATs (remote access trojans) and emulators (e.g. software which masks non-mobile devices to appear as such applied for adfraud))

Advantages of a frictionless user authentication

The big advantage of Behavioral Biometrics is the continuous and frictionless user authentication in real time. The analysis is dynamic and takes place during the entire session from login to logout, without the user having to prove that he is the actual account holder.

Reduce friction

by strengthening security with seamless authentication for your customers powered by biometrics to have an optimal user experience

Continuous authentication

detecting fraud attempts through continuous monitoring through the complete session– from login to logout

Detect automated fraud

threats through recognition of emulators and non-human behavior such as BOTs or RATs

Reduce false positives

Clearly differentiate between good users and fraudsters. Accept or block transactions accordingly and reduce manual reviews

Real-time fraud alerts

Especially accurate thanks to the analysis of more than 100 different behavioral parameters

Protect shared accounts

through the creation of unique user profiles for each member to ensure the legitimacy of the transactions

Reduce costs

through the implementation of an invisible two factor authentication, reducing the need of offering active authentication methods (e.g. tan, cvv, sms)

Our solution

To autheticate the user, Behavioral Biometrics analyzes more than 100 physical behavioral parameters, such as user finger pressure on a mobile device, fingertip size, touch coordinates and device movement, in order to generate a unique profile for each user.

Thanks to machine learning algorithms, the solutions continuously monitors and improves accuracy and gets to know a multitude of behavioral patterns of a person. Everything is analysed in the background, which dynamically improves security and accuracy.

The passive biometric authentication and analysis of user behavior do not only recognise the legitimate user but also allow distinguishing between human and automated fraudulent activities.

Continuous frictionless authentication

The behavioral biometric two factor authentication considers all datapoints collected through interaction with the device which include the user’s physical patterns, biological attributes, navigation behavior and context data:

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Confidence scoring for user validation

During an online activity,a continuous authentication takes place, and a Trust Score is generated in real time behind the scenes. The score shows the probability of the user being the real owner of the account. This enables frictionless legitimate transactions and offers a better customer experience to legitimate users.