Mobile Connect is a mobile centric solution that aims for MNOs (Mobile Network Operator) to become a trusted identity service provider to third party providers. However, Mobile Connect is not only a new way to authenticate users in the mobile network. Moreover, it provides a way to link the digital and real identity of a person and protect their data, giving them sms gateway denmark back the control for sharing this information when, where and who with.
MobileConnect takes advantage of the MNO assets such as the mobile device and the SIM card. Thanks to these assets the MNO can almost always reach the user and send a challenge to authenticate them. In that way, the user’s device turns into a kind of addressable support that keeps the user identity that in turn can be validated by means of different authenticators or different ways to authenticate the user.
These different ways to authenticate users provide different validation security levels. This is the so called Level of Assurance (LoA) that describes the degree of confidence in the authentication process. In short they provide certain assurance that the user who is being authenticated is who they claim to be.
