IT’S A RISKY WORLD OUT THERE.
With the growth of online transactions and online fraud, identity protection has become more important than ever. One of the methods used by Internet thieves is to obtain your user account name and password and then log in under your identity.
When your passwords are compromised, thieves might gain access to your bank and credit card accounts, as well as your accounts with online merchants, social networking sites, gaming sites and even your corporate network.
These risks are likely to grow in the years ahead as thieves develop more sophisticated tools and techniques for determining passwords, stealing user identity and hacking into protected sites. This
What’s needed is multifactor authentication that takes identify verification to a higher level. This advanced approach to security couples something you know, such as your user name and password, with something you have, such as a unique digital token generated by your computer.
HP DigitalPass technology is designed to enable this higher level of
ADD SECURITY WITH HP DIGITALPASS.
Here’s how it works.
HP DigitalPass is incorporated into HP ProtectTools, a family of security products, services and features available on HP Business Notebooks, Desktops and Workstations. HP DigitalPass can be enabled through the Credential Manager in the HP ProtectTools1 console.
Once HP DigitalPass is enabled, it leverages Symantec™ Validation and ID Protection (VIP) Service. The activation process is simple. When you arrive on a website supporting HP DigitalPass and VIP protection (example eBay or PayPal), you are asked if you would like to add an additional level of security when visiting the site. If you agree and elect to use HP DigitalPass and VIP, all that is required is that you type in a user name and password. Behind the scenes, your HP PC combines a second credential that is unique to your PC with the user name and password. Even if hackers stole your user name and password, they could not log in to websites from a remote computer from that point forward. You are protected.
After you’ve registered your PC with a website, HP DigitalPass handles the work behind the scenes each time you return to the site. Simply log in as
always and a new PC credential is combined with your login data and verified at the site—
unique and secure every time you visit the website. There is no charge for this security provided by HP.