{"id":27886,"date":"2017-03-06T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T02:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=27886"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T02:50:18","slug":"unionbanks-eon-lets-you-use-your-selfie-as-your-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2017\/03\/06\/unionbanks-eon-lets-you-use-your-selfie-as-your-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Unionbank\u2019s EON lets customers log in with their selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You can now bank online by just snapping a selfie. Yes, your face can now be your password.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/EON-Selfie-Banking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27887\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/EON-Selfie-Banking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/EON-Selfie-Banking.jpg 672w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/EON-Selfie-Banking-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/EON-Selfie-Banking-84x55.jpg 84w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Customers of EON, a product of UnionBank, may now log in to their account by doing what they\u2019ve always loved to do \u2013 posing in front of a smartphone.\u00a0 Launch the EON app, take a selfie, and you\u2019re in.<\/p>\n<p>EON uses state-of-the-art face recognition technology.\u00a0 It is the same technology used by the US and other countries in securing borders, immigration, and critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>By adding face recognition, EON attains the gold standard in security, a multi-factor \u2013 something you know, something you have, and something you are \u2013 authentication process to protect customers from the escalating threats to cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, passwords are easily compromised.\u00a0 To respond to hacks, banks require customers to use more complex and cumbersome passwords \u2013 longer, changing more frequently, and therefore, more likely to be forgotten.\u00a0 EON spares you from all the hassle because with EON, your face is your password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can now bank online by just snapping a selfie. Yes, your face can now be your password.\u00a0 Customers of EON, a product of UnionBank, may now log in to their account by doing what they\u2019ve always loved to do \u2013 posing in front of a smartphone.\u00a0 Launch the EON app, take a selfie, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[413,5135,5136,286,548,2420,2005,4962],"class_list":["post-27886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-spotlight","tag-banking","tag-eon","tag-facial-recognition","tag-it-security","tag-online-banking","tag-password-management","tag-selfie","tag-unionbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}