Nok Nok Labs
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Authentication, Computer Security |
| Founded 📆 | 2011 |
| Founders 👔 | Ramesh Kesanupalli, Taher Elgamal, Michael Barrett |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , U.S. |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
Key people | Phillip Dunkelberger (President & CEO) Ramesh Kesanupalli (Founder & Chief Alliances Officer) Rajiv Dholakia (VP Products) Naga Nagarajan (VP Engineering) David Wiener (VP & General Counsel) David Burnett (VP Program Management) |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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Nok Nok Labs is a venture-backed company located in Palo Alto, California that develops software to enable end-to-end online user authentication using methods that are natural to end-users and provide strong proof of identity. The company has been a driving force in establishing authentication standards under the auspices of the FIDO Alliance (Fast IDentity Online).[1]
History[edit]
Nok Nok Labs was founded in 2011 by security veterans from PGP, Netscape, Paypal and Phoenix with funding from DCM and ONSET Ventures.[2] Nok Nok Labs has worked to establish authentication standards that can be used across an ecosystem that includes device manufacturers, the security vendor community, and parties that rely on authentication services. Nok Nok Labs is a founding member of the FIDO Alliance, the industry body driving emerging authentication standards.[3]
The company’s authentication technology has been spurred by a number of industry trends including mobile computing, e-commerce, and the fragmentation inherent in existing approaches to online authentication. Nok Nok Labs positions itself as unifying the existing online authentication silos, enabling organizations to leverage both legacy and future technologies used in internet devices and transactions. Nok Nok Labs has worked with device manufacturers such as Samsung as well as e-commerce players including Paypal and Alibaba to deploy its technology.
Technology[edit]
Nok Nok Labs’s focus is authenticating user identity using methods available on a user device (fingerprint, password, PIN, retina scan, etc.). The company has taken advantage of industry trends including the proliferation of mobile devices that are shipping with increasingly sophisticated authentication technologies such as fingerprint readers.
Nok Nok Labs’ leverages the new FIDO specifications that facilitate online authentication. The specifications include the passwordless user experience (UAF) and the second factor user experience (U2F) standards to provide a scalable strong authentication designed for modern computing requirements and the Internet of Things.
Products[edit]
The Nok Nok Labs provides client-side and server-side software to facilitate user authentication. The client-side product comes in a desktop flavor (Multifactor Authentication Client Desktop Edition) and mobile flavor (Multifactor Authentication Client Mobile Edition). The server-side product is named Multifactor Authentication Server (MFAS). The combination of client and server products is referred to as the Nok Nok Labs S3 Authentication Suite. Nok Nok Labs has stated that all of its offerings are ready to support the FIDO standard when the standard is finalized.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ CIO, February 12, 2013: "FIDO Alliance Says, 'Forget Passwords!'"
- ↑ VCNewsDaily, June 6, 2012: "Nok Nok Labs Raises $16.5M in Series B"
- ↑ SecuritySolutionsWatch.com, July 21, 2014: "In The Boardroom With...Mr. Ramesh Kesanupalli"
- ↑ ComputerWeekly, October 27, 2014: "Final specification for Fido password-killing protocol imminent"
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