Mobile Authenticator Studio features

Mobile Authenticator Studio features provides an overview of the Mobile Authenticator Studio features.

Once the user has activated an instance of the authenticator, action buttons are displayed in the main screen of the app to provide access to each cryptographic application. Actions not relying on cryptographic applications of the authenticator can ...

As part of the OneSpan authentication product lines, Mobile Authenticator Studio can be used to generate one-time passwords (OTPs) and e-signatures. Cryptographic application Mobile Authenticator Studio supports up to eight cryptographic applicat...

The Mobile Authenticator Studio cryptographic applications can be protected by a local password. Password protection is defined in the Mobile Authenticator Studio Parameter Sheet . The user’s password is never stored by Mobile Authenticator Studio,...

On mobile devices with a biometric sensor (Touch ID or Face ID on iOS, or a fingerprint sensor on Android), users can protect their activated authenticator with their fingerprint or their facial image, regardless of whether authenticator PIN protect...

The Secure data storage feature enables data to be encrypted with a local password to securely store it on the device and protect it from unauthorized access. When using a local password, the data is associated with information known only by the u...

The Secure Channel feature uses a randomly generated symmetric key to encrypt the communication between the server and the authenticator account. This symmetric key is the payload key. It is provisioned with the authenticator key during the activa...

Transaction Data Signing consists in signing data which is stored on a server using the Mobile Authenticator Studio application. The data signing process starts outside the Mobile Authenticator Studio application. For example, the user enters a set...

Mobile Authenticator Studio push notifications are used in the context of out-of-band login and out-of-band Transaction Data Signing . With this feature, you can send a notification to the Mobile Authenticator Studio app when data is pending for ...

The Mobile Authenticator Studio app can be protected by the OneSpan Mobile Application Shielding feature, which provides countermeasures against attacks that target the running app. The countermeasures offered by the App Shielding feature per pla...

Mobile Authenticator Studio may use the device time to compute OTPs and e-signatures. Because the device time is susceptible to modifications by user and/or network interactions, it is possible to synchronize the time used by the application with th...

The Mobile Authenticator Studio application can be configured to display an end user license agreement (EULA) on startup. The application is activated only after the EULA has been accepted. The EULA text file needs to meet the following requirement...

For user support, Mobile Authenticator Studio can display authenticator information that may be useful in case of issues and for troubleshooting. This information includes the following: Serial number of the authenticator in use Sequence numbe...

This feature is available only on iOS and Android devices. The Mobile Authenticator Studio application can be invoked from a URL that has the following format: ${scheme}://${actionName} . This URL can be provided to the user in a mobile web bro...

The Mobile Authenticator Studio app can be configured for multi-language support . Each supported language requires a separate Mobile Authenticator Studio configuration file which defines the supported language code (ISO 639). Mobile Authenticator ...

On Android and iOS, Mobile Authenticator Studio can be configured to prevent execution on rooted or jailbroken devices. By embedding a signature file that lists residual traces of the rooting process, Mobile Authenticator Studio can detect if a devi...

On Android and iOS devices, Mobile Authenticator Studio can be configured to check at startup if an update of the application is available. Mobile Authenticator Studio can be configured to react to an available update according to the following poli...

The SSL pinning feature verifies the public keys of servers before allowing communication. Mobile Authenticator Studio can be configured to enable the SSL pinning feature. A list of accepted public key of certificates will be embedded inside the ...