Technology Notes

A series of short (one page!) plain English papers on Lockstep Technologies' solutions.

	Lockstep TN1 How to stop ID theft (1 4)	[download, 56Kb]
The root cause of most identity theft is the carefree way in which online businesses ask for – and get – our personal numbers. The ease with which numerical identifiers can be taken over and replayed has created a crisis of confidence in authentication and an ever worsening tide of private data being exchanged and exposed. Lockstep’s “Stepwise” enables each unique ID and each transaction to be sealed with two vital pieces of information: (1) the issuer of the ID and (2) the fact that the ID was carried in a particular type of device.