Barclays Bank announced on Monday that it will commence rolling out voice security authentication to all customers, replacing the existing password-based method.
A Barclays spokesperson told SecurityWeek this will make its “telephone banking service easier to use and more secure than ever.” Traditional passwords have been losing favor for many years — their complex and intrusive nature prompts many users to use simple and guessable passwords. Biometrics, such as voice recognition, require very little effort from the user, and are claimed to be very secure.
