‘Frictionless SCA’ patent awarded to Entersekt

Financial-authentication company Entersekt has been awarded a U.S. patent for its software enabling what company executives call frictionless, multi-factor authentication.

Entersekt claims in a public statement that the patent is confirmation that its authentication approach “can qualify as possession ad inherence factors.”

The patent (Frictionless SCA 20220131857A1) also protects a mechanism that the South Africa company created to digitally sign a transaction on a bank customer’s device. The mechanism enables simultaneous dynamic linking, which heeds Europe’s PSD2 regulations.

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