The pandemic has forced many companies to consider new "digital business models" and adapt their ways of working. Employees have been sent to the home office, the world has become many times more digital in a very short time, and users and customers are accessing sensitive data remotely via a wide variety of devices.

User accounts, or the authentication to access them, are the new perimeter and thus also increasingly the target of attacks. Messages such as "user account taken over" or "user locked out" are part of everyday life. Fake user accounts" are created and, for example, tickets or coveted new retail releases are ordered online at the expense of others, resulting in high financial losses.

These and many other reports can now be found regularly in the media, and th ...