Risk-link authentication for optimizing decisions of multi-factor authentications

摘要

A system for evaluating risk in an electronic banking transaction by estimating an aggregated risk value from a set of risk factors that are either dependent or independent of each other, comprising: user input means for enabling an end user to provide authentication information related to a desired electronic banking transaction; financial institution authentication means for authenticating that an end user is authorized to conduct the desired electronic transaction; risk computation means for imposing authentication requirements upon the end user in adaptation to a risk value of the desired banking electronic banking transaction; transaction session means for tracking an amount of time that the desired electronic banking transaction is taking; and financial institution transaction means for storing data related to the desired electronic banking transaction.