Say Goodbye to passwords: Cyber security beyond commonly used textual and biometric passwords PixelPin Follow May 18, 2018 · 3 min read

By Angelina Liparteliani, Marketing Assistant for PixelPin Ltd

Under the motto “security should not be something to fear, but make you feel safe” PixelPin has built a secure authentication system that allows using pictures instead of passwords. The security solution that introduces a completely new approach to online safety because it offers the opportunity to integrate your favourite image or photo as your password and secure your data at a pixel level.

Meet our service

We at PixelPin offer the option to choose between two: you can use the image from our range of cool, bright and carefully selected photos, or implement your own. It can be a photo of anything: from the picture of your dog, family, car, to just an abstract image, meaningful only to you. We just suggest that you should use a picture with many points of interest, not a minimalistic photo. So, we suggest that you better use a picture with many objects, like represented on example 2 from PixelPin, than something like picture 1.

Later we will discuss this in more detail, to provide you with the accurate instruction. So, please follow our social media to find out more. For now, let’s focus on pictured passwords and find out why you should consider using them for your data protection today.

Does your online data feel safe?

Are you sure that your authentication service secures your web information properly? The technology of cracking textual passwords is developing from day to day. Currently, there is a software that can test up to 3 billion passwords per second. This makes it possible to hack a ten-symbol password in one day. This is likely to raise the concern about your cyber safety if you got used to unlocking your smartphone with “4321” password. If you think you are on a safe side of web space because of using a biometric form of authentication — I have bad news for you. Undoubtingly, biometrics are safer than textual, however, Apple Support itself confesses that the Touch ID is not perfect. Approximately one in 50,000 fingerprints can be matched with yours.

Having analysed these numbers and statistics, PixelPin introduced a pictured form of authentication. According to sociological study, the possibility of hacking 4 points pictured password varies between 1 in 100,000 to 1,000,000 depending on the picture and to what extent the chosen points are obvious.

So, we can confidently say that PixelPin is based at such level of safety, where your data is locked within pixels of your chosen image. In this way, we advise our clients to relax and let us bother about their online safety, using their lovely pictures.

If you have any questions, or interested in partnership, do not hesitate to reach us via email: Georgia@pixelpin.io, Stefano@pixelpin.io

Photo sources: Pixabay, Pexels