Multi-factor authentication market to reach $5.45 billion by 2017

The two-factor authentication market will touch $5.45 billion by the year 2017, predicts MarketsandMarkets. The report looks at the market by authentication type, application and geography and predicts a compound annual growth of 17.3%. Multi-factor authentication refers to user and employee authentication that uses two or more verifying authentication techniques – hardware token, one-time password (OTP), password/PIN, biometrics, etc. Multi-factor authentication has become an integral part of personal and enterprise security due to increase in unauthorized access, fraud, border intrusion and more.  To account for this, multi-factor authentication is being deployed at all the major security checkpoints at airports, commercial complexes, retail malls, banks, financial institutions and others. Multi-factor authentications value lies in its ability to provide accurate authentication along with a minimal margin of duplicity or error.

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