Stepwise

"Stepwise" is Lockstep Technologies' first commercial offering.

Stepwise radically enhances safety – both privacy and security – for consumers transacting on the Internet, by de-identifying highly sensitive transactions, such as e-health record entries, e-voting, social networking, social security or insurance claims and so on.

Stepwise encapsulates personal identifiers, keeps them under the sole control of the individual, strips them of all extraneous personal details, and allows each to be exercised independently of all others. It enables diverse applications and third party business relationships to be safely managed from government or bank-issued smartcards without information leaking between services.

Stepwise allows individuals to be dealt with in each transactional context by customer reference number alone, avoiding the time-consuming, invasive and ultimately futile exercise of playing ‘twenty questions’ when identifying oneself online or to a call centre operator. By shrinking the amount of data needed to support online transactions, Stepwise will radically reduce the leakage of personal information and will thus curtail cyber-crime.

If all identifiers and personal data were safeguarded by Stepwise, we could eliminate almost all forms of "ID theft" as we know it today. When Stepwise protects a number, that number cannot be linked to any other personal data, and cannot be presented without its owner's consent.

Further information about the Stepwise CNP Fraud solution is available on request.

	Lockstep Stepwise Brochure (5 2)	[download, 108Kb]
Our first brochure.
	Lockstep Technologies Stepwise capsules (2 3)	[download, 454Kb]
A slide deck that illustrates the encapsulation of customer reference numbers, account numbers, personal identifiers and so on.