This was the week that Oscar Pistorius went on trial by media.   Forget about the lawyers -  this was ‘crowd sourced’  litigation at its finest;   fed by a torrent of tweets,  Tumblr images,  TV clips and banks of cameras that overwhelmed the tiny South African courtroom.   Opinions,  some informed, but mostly not,  spewed forth on social media proffering

 Live Ensure® the SAAS  multi-factor authentication solution has spent the last year and a half field trialing the mobile version of the product with a few select customers who have collectively made millions of authentications without a single breach or failure.  Feedback provided valuable input which allowed the product to be further refined and streamlined making the user experience

FIDO or Fast Identity Online was launched last week by a couple of Internet big hitters most notably PayPal.   They clearly have a vested interest in ensuring that their transactions are secure.    FIDO aims to provide specifications or standards to the industry that embody  an approach to authentication which starts to move away from the ‘security by obscurity

I was asked today by a board member to respond to a question from a prospective investor who wanted to know how Live Ensure (our service) differed from two other – lets call them ….the more traditional solutions.  For the sake of this blog we will call them the Old and the New solutions.  Let me describe the Old Co solutions to you briefly.  They both embody technologies which are

Mary Meeker informs us that there are now 1.1bn  Smartphones  (17% of all mobile phones) and these are driving Internet growth with a total of 2.4bn people now connected to the Internet. Mary Meeker Internet trendsThe universe for hackers just grows and grows.    One of the most lethal of these attacks is Zeus (ZITMO) – which is aimed squarely at Smartphones. The Zeus attack is