Nearly half of UK firms to deploy biometric authentication within five years: survey SecureAuth has published a new survey which reveals that many organizations are adopting a new approach to authentication, with 83 percent of IT decision makers in the UK predicting that their organizations will be passwordless in five years’ time....full story Categories: Access Control | Biometric News | Commercial Applications Share: Facebook | Twitter

EyeLock white paper discusses biometric authentication in the cloud ​​​EyeLock has released a new white paper titled “What You Should Know About Biometrics in the Cloud”. The white paper discusses the challenges caused by biometrics in the cloud as well as how EyeLock’s new biometric protection system BioDentity...full story Categories: Biometric News | Iris / Eye Share: Facebook | Twitter

Fingerprint Cards reports 2016 year-end, Q4 results Fingerprint Cards (FPC) reported its year-end financial results for 2016 as well as for the fourth quarter, which saw year-end revenues of SEK 6,638 million — a 129 percent increase compared over the company’s year-end revenues 2015. The report...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Mark Crego, Janice Kephart form identity strategy consultancy firm Mark Crego and Janice Kephart have formed a new independent identity strategy consultancy firm called Identity Strategy Partners, LLP (IdSP), which is designed to provide technical and policy expertise in the identity market. The founding partners have a combined...full story Categories: Biometric News | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

UIDAI terminates 24 fraudulent apps and websites offering Aadhaar services The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the government agency in charge of Aadhaar, has shut down 24 fake apps and websites offering Aadhaar-based services by illegally charging users, according to a report by BGR. UIDAI terminated 12 websites...full story Categories: Biometric News | Civil ID Share: Facebook | Twitter

Distribution partnership opens up Irish security market for ievo A new distribution partnership with Northwood Technology can open up the security market in Ireland for ievo. ievo is a UK-based biometrics company that focuses on the design, manufacture and distribution of internal and external fingerprint recognition products. Dublin’s...full story Categories: Access Control | Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Canadian politicians lobbying against Trump’s biometric border screening initiative Canada has started an under-the-radar lobbying campaign against the Trump administration’s planned biometric screening initiative for all visitors to the United States upon both entry and exit, according to a report by The Globe and Mail. The move follows...full story Categories: Biometric News | Border Security Share: Facebook | Twitter

AI, machine learning will alter, not replace public sector workforce roles: Accenture Accenture published a new research report, “Emerging Technologies in Public Service”, which explores the adoption of emerging technologies across agencies tasked with providing citizen-facing services, such as health and social services, policing/justice, revenue, border services, administration and, pensions and...full story Categories: Biometric News | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

Software uses smartwatch motion data for signature verification Researchers have developed software that leverages a smartwatch’s motion detection capabilities to verify a handwritten signature, according to a report by New Atlas. In a new paper, researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev...full story Categories: Behavioral | Biometric News Share: Facebook | Twitter

Safran, FotoNation bring advanced iris recognition to mobile device users Safran Identity & Security and Tessera Holding Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary FotoNation Limited, have partnered to provide an advanced iris authentication solution for mobile devices in the Indian market. The companies will provide a joint mobile iris...full story Categories: Biometric News | Iris / Eye Share: Facebook | Twitter

RSA Conference 2017 RSA Conference 2017 February 13-17, 2017 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA RSA Conference 2017 RSA Conference 2017: Where the world talks security. Secure your seat Feb. 13-17 in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. Celebrating its 26th anniversary, RSA...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

10th annual Border Security Conference 10th annual Border Security Conference February 15-16, 2017 Rome, Italy This conference program will explore how political issues affecting the border security community, such as increasing immigration in the Mediterranean as well as cross-border terrorism, can be combated and...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

DCD>Enterprise DCD>Enterprise March 14-15 2017 Marriott Marquis, New York Stay ahead of 2017 and join your peers in the biggest data center meet up in New York, visionary speakers include Google, JP Morgan, Vapor IO, Bank Street Group LLC, Nissan...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

World Border Security Congress World Border Security Congress March 21-23, 2017 Casablanca, Morocco The World Border Security Congress is a high level 3 day event that will discuss and debate current and future policies, implementation issues and challenges as well as new and...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

FinDEVr New York 2017 FinDEVr New York 2017 March 21 & 22, 2017 Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St., New York, NY FinDEVr is the only conference series focused exclusively on the TECHNOLOGY of fintech and the developers, CTOs and other creators of...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter