Architecture of the S3 Suite

Introduction

The S3 Suite allows your application to take advantage of the security capabilities of modern devices such as passkeys and Biometrics such as fingerprint biometrics, iris recognition, voice biometrics, and others. The suite provides a unified infrastructure that allows you to integrate these capabilities in a simple manner to provide authentication that is both more user friendly and more secure than passwords. It leverages FIDO protocols for strengthening modern authentication supporting both platform and external authentication using biometrics and hardware tokens.

The S3 Suite consists of components that reside on the user’s device and components that are installed in your data center. Below is a summary of the components highlighted in the architecture diagrams shown in Figure 1a S3 Suite Solution Architecture for Mobile Apps and Figure 1b S3 Suite Solution Architecture for Web Browser-Based Apps. In the diagrams below, yellow identifies Nok Nok components while white is for your components.

Figure 1a S3 Suite Solution Architecture for Mobile Apps

Figure 1b S3 Suite Solution Architecture for Web Browser-Based Apps

In the above diagram, pale red identifies components on the user's device.