TraitWare Authentication simplifies and secures access to protected applications and web sites by employing the User’s Mobile Device as a “login token” or “authenticator”, eliminating or reducing dependence on the use of inconvenient and problematic usernames and passwords or separate hardware tokens. It improves the security by adding two-factor authentication to the login process.
The TraitWare system consists of two major components: 1) the TraitWare Mobile App; and 2) The back-end TraitWare components which are hosted in a secure cloud.

TraitWare includes patent-pending technology called, “TraitWare ID” which “binds” the User’s identity to their Mobile Device. It also includes a patent-pending technology called “PhotoAuth” which is an image-based unlock method which prevents unauthorized users from accessing the TraitWare App so that only the registered User can use it as a login token. In other words, TraitWare allows the User’s Mobile Device to be used as a multi-factor authenticator where the two factors are 1) “something you have”, which is the device itself which contains user and device traits; and 2) “something you know” which is your image-based PhotoAuth Sequence (which functions as a “visual PIN”). TraitWare can also be used without the PhotoAuth feature at a lower level of security.