MorphoTrak cloud service gains traction with field experience MorphoTrak‘s cloud solution for government and law enforcement agencies, MorphoCloud, was launched in October 2015, and the service is now evolving based on experience gained in the field. While the cloud inherently enables many potential benefits including high availability,...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition | Law Enforcement Share: Facebook | Twitter

EAB lobbies EU Parliament to enhance biometric testing The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) sent a letter to the European Parliament last month requesting legislation to enable easier access to data required for testing biometrics products and systems. The Management Board and Advisory Council of the EAB...full story Categories: Biometric News | Biometric R&D Share: Facebook | Twitter

Green Bit appoints new Sales VP Green Bit Americas, Inc., a fast growing biometric fingerprint company, recently announced that it has appointed Nadia Reid as its new vice president for sales and business development. Green Bit designs and produces a complete catalogue of high-end FBI...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

Pindrop helps PSCU fight call center fraud PSCU, the nation’s leading credit union service organization, has announced a partnership with Pindrop to identify and prevent call center authentication fraud. PSCU is the first credit union service provider to use Pindrop’s platform for fighting call center authentication...full story Categories: Biometric News | Voice Biometrics Share: Facebook | Twitter

GenKey releases version 3.1 of its automated biometric identification system GenKey has released version 3.1 of its Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), designed to meet the growing demands and complexity of large-scale identity programs. The company said the new release improves the reliability of the registration process, particularly when...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

Nok Nok Labs new S3 authentication suite supports all FIDO standards Nok Nok Labs has launched a premium edition of its Nok Nok S3 Authentication Suite (S3 Suite), which the company calls the first unified platform that enables organizations to leverage FIDO standards-based authentication. The new suite supports several existing...full story Categories: Access Control | Biometric News | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

Biometric identification solution helps support national school meal program in Chile NEC Corporation revealed that NEC Chile successfully trialed a biometric identification solution using fingerprint recognition technologies for the school meal program administered by Chile’s National Board of Aid and Scholarships (JUNAEB). The pilot project took place last November and...full story Categories: Biometric News | Healthcare Biometrics | Schools Share: Facebook | Twitter

CBP details biometric entry/exit program plans The US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) is taking the next step of its development of a biometric entry/exit system program by reaching out to the industry with an RFI titled “CBP OIT Biometric Exit Acquisition“, as posted...full story Categories: Biometric News | Border Security | Government Purchasing Share: Facebook | Twitter

Brisbane Airport trials SITA facial recognition technology Australia’s Brisbane Airport has launched a trial of facial recognition technology develped in partnership with SITA and Air New Zealand. The new SITA Smart Path biometrics-based technology allows passengers to present their details at a self-service check-in kiosk and,...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

CPS to provide biometric authentication services for South African social grant beneficiaries Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), a subsidiary of Net1 UEPS, have agreed to the terms of a two-year contract with South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) to provide biometric authentication of beneficiaries for enrolment and payment, according to a report...full story Categories: Biometric News | Fingerprint Recognition | Voice Biometrics Share: Facebook | Twitter

Sentegrity risk-based authentication app integrated in BlackBerry Dynamics Behavioral biometrics authentication firm Sentegrity has partnered with BlackBerry to provide trusted authentication for applications on the BlackBerry Dynamics platform. Any BlackBerry application can initiate Sentegrity on launch to set the authentication requirements based on trusted baselines of user...full story Categories: Behavioral | Biometric News Share: Facebook | Twitter

Behavioral biometrics enable financial institutions to comply with cybersecurity regulations The New York State Department of Financial Services’ (NYDFS) new cybersecurity regulations for the financial services industry went into effect last week, which makes authentication solutions like behavioral biometrics easier for financial institutions to comply and protect themselves against...full story Categories: Behavioral | Biometric News Share: Facebook | Twitter

Eliminating passwords in the enterprise This is a guest post by John Spencer, Chief Product Officer at Veridium Did you know that the average IT team spends more than 7 hours a week resetting employee passwords? At a company with 3,500 end users, that’s...full story Categories: Biometric News | Biometric Update Blog | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

Biometrics Research Group projects $10 billion in mobile biometrics revenue in 2018 Biometrics Research Group, Inc., publisher of BiometricUpdate.com, yesterday released an updated Special Report that provides an overview and synopsis on mobile biometric applications. Mobile biometric applications operate on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, with “apps” utilizing embedded...full story Categories: Biometric News | Mobile Biometrics Share: Facebook | Twitter

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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

Smart Surveillance for Safer Cities Smart Surveillance for Safer Cities March 27-28, 2017 Abu Dhabi, UAE The Smart Surveillance for Safer Cities conference will be a platform for you to network with government stakeholders responsible for deploying smart surveillance technologies and improving public safety...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter