Behavioral biometrics solutions company BioCatch announced a partnership with Nuance Communications this week. Through the partnership, Israel-based BioCatch will leverage consumer behavior to power continuous authentication for the Nuance Security Suite solution.

BioCatch’s technology builds a profile for users that consists of how they use their keyboard, mouse, or mobile phone screen. When the system detects anomalies within a client’s session, it generates an alert that signals the user may be a fraudster. This fraud prevention solution will be available through Nuance’s FraudMiner interface and to help banks to more accurately detect fraud across channels.

In the press release Eyal Goldwerger, CEO of BioCatch said, “In today’s digital world, hackers have figured out how to bypass the initial authentication and piggyback on existing logins,” he added, “One of the only ways to detect
this is through continuous authentication and by extension, behavioral biometrics, because it works in the
background, passively, without disrupting the user experience. By bringing together our behavioral biometrics
and Nuance’s voice biometrics, we are able to solve this problem and secure transactions holistically across
multiple channels.”

After the user logs into a session, BioCatch can accurately detect fraud that comes from malware, account takeovers, and social engineering. Since these methods can be very difficult to detect using traditional fraud detection methods, Nuance anticipates that the addition of BioCatch’s technology will augment the immediate return on investment for its clients.

Founded in 2011, BioCatch demonstrated its Passive Biometrics and Invisible Challenges at FinovateFall 2014 in New York. In late 2016, the company launched an enterprise version of its behavioral biometrics platform and in April, BioCatch appointed Eyal Goldwerger as CEO.

Behavioral biometrics threat-detection company BioCatch has selected Eyal Goldwerger to take the place of Benny Rosenbaum as CEO. The new appointment, the company states, is to guide BioCatch through a time of “significant growth” now that the company has signed several of the world’s largest banks as clients.

Goldwerger comes to the Israel-based company with experience as CEO of TargetSpot and XMPie, both of which have been successfully acquired. He is currently a chairman on the board of Ufora, an open-source software company, and serves as a board member of Galil Software, an R&D and Q&A outsourcing company.

BioCatch’s behavioral analytics helps prevent fraud by tracking how users interact with web and mobile applications. Throughout a client’s session, BioCatch posts what it calls Invisible Challenges that authenticate without interfering with the user experience.

At the close of 2015, the company reported that its behavioral biometrics authentication is monitoring more than 1 billion transactions per month to protect more than 33 million banking customers around the globe.

Founded in 2011, BioCatch debuted Invisible Challenges at FinovateFall 2014.