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What a trust score actually measures
A plain-language walkthrough of the factors MFA-Brain™ weighs, and why a single score beats a stack of independent checks.
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Short, practical writing on how authentication changes when both people and autonomous software need to prove who they are.
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Identity for AI agents: the missing control
Agents act with real authority but often inherit a human's credentials. Here is what a first-class agent identity looks like.
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Why passwordless is not the same as frictionless
Removing the password is step one. Keeping the journey smooth requires deciding when to challenge, and when to stay out of the way.
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Continuous authentication in regulated environments
How explainable, logged trust decisions support audit obligations without slowing customer journeys.
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Account takeover fraud prevention with trust scoring
Why static rules miss account takeover, and how continuous trust scoring stops fraud without adding friction for genuine customers.
Read article →The vocabulary of intelligent authentication
- MFA-Brain™
- Authiun's decision engine that ensembles identity signals into one weighted trust score.
- Trust score
- A 0 to 100 measure of confidence in the identity behind a request, recalculated continuously.
- Agent attestation
- Cryptographic proof that a request originates from a registered, unmodified AI agent.
- Step-up
- An additional verification triggered only when the trust score falls below the journey threshold.
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