You need to prevent automated software from performing actions that could degrade your system's quality of service, like e-mail spam, automatic blog postings, or malicious vandalism. A common defense: using CAPTCHA ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart").

With a typical CAPTCHA process, users are presented with a graphically distorted word or series of characters that only a human could identify and key in. Unfortunately, like most access security measures, hackers have found ways around it. They're using automated software to remove background clutter, splitting the image into regions which each contain a single character. Or they'll grab and send the image to people who identify and then return it to the hacker source.

Now you have a better option. Think of Tricerion's SafeUser as "CAPTCHA 2.0". Its strong mutual authentication protocols also present a graphic image - our patented keypad - requiring user interaction. It effectively blocks automated software because there's nothing there for it to decode: the sequential elements of the picture password that must be clicked to maintain identity integrity are safely contained in the legitimate user's memory.