Approach to vendor authentication

1 Background With the remarkable and ever increasing technology growth, we need various products and services from different vendors, such as: • Home appliances • Furniture • Mobile • Internet To deliver these products and provide services, representatives from concerned companies visit our place. We somehow need to ascertain if the person visiting is an authentic representative from the concerned vendor. In many countries, there are cases where an imposter visits as a company representative and indulge in theft or even murder of the persons at home. 2 Objective The main objective of the Vendor Authentication Technique is to prevent customers from being cheated by impostors visiting them as a customer support official of a certain organization. To examine the authenticity of the vendor representative the customer generally asks the vendor representative to produce an Office ID Proof and Government ID Proof. However, this procedure may not always be secure enough and the customer may 147