What is Keyless
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Keyless is a biometric authentication company that specializes in privacy-preserving technology. Serving both consumer and workforce environments, Keyless enables businesses to enhance security and reduce costs by replacing or complementing traditional methods—such as passwords, PINs, SMS OTPs, and call centers—with facial biometrics.
Keyless is used at multiple stages of the user journey, including login, payment, step-up authentication, and account recovery. Common use cases include:
Reducing account takeover (ATO) fraud, including phishing and SIM swapping.
Cutting account recovery costs tied to expensive call centers and SMS OTPs.
Ensuring compliance with privacy and data protection regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA.
Protecting high-risk actions like step-up authentication for address or healthcare detail changes.
Securing high-risk transactions and ensuring compliance with PSD2 and Strong Customer Authentication (SCA).
While Keyless was initially built for banks and fintechs, it now protects a wide range of industries, including education and large global enterprises.
Unlike local biometric solutions like FaceID or passkeys, Keyless offers identity assurance by verifying that the person authenticating is the same individual who initially registered. It binds the user's device to the app during the original sign-up process.
Uniquely, Keyless achieves all this without storing biometric data—neither on the device nor in the cloud. With a simple glance at the device's camera, users can authenticate in under 300 milliseconds, while their biometric template remains unreadable to external parties - including Keyless, ensuring total privacy.
Keyless is privately owned, ISO27001 and ISO30107 certified, holds FIDO Biometrics and FIDO2 certifications, has multiple patents, and employs 50 people across four global offices.