As technological advancements like the smartphone and the IoT change society, they are also changing how we authenticate to physical and logical security systems. In our daily activities, we are constantly pinged by sensors and IoT devices. It is a process that is creating a new type of ID, an IDIoT, that can be recognized by both man and machine.

Digital IDs offer a promising solution for re-securing American identities: They can be verified offline using tamper-proof digital signatures, and securing access to digital credentials with PIN or biometrics enables strong protection against fraudsters.

By Mollie Shields Uehling, President and CEO, SAFE-BioPharma Association Over the past few years almost 180 million Americans have had their healthcare records stolen. Our ubiquitous reliance on user names and passwords is the leading cause of these massive cyber thefts. Another term for it is weak identity trust. The same can be said of […]

To reduce identity fraud, it is crucial for modern organizations to optimize customer acquisition processes both in-store and via online channels. Governments, banks and telecoms are finding that automated identity verification is a crucial step in this process. Learn how multi-channel solutions can enable secure face-to-face enrollments or allow customers to self-enroll with smartphones anytime and anywhere.

As the use of biometrics continues to rise, so too does the need to quantify the strength of one biometric to another biometric or even to an alternative authentication technique. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is addressing this need with a new project called SOFA-B or Strength of Function for Authenticators – Biometrics. The goal behind SOFA-B is to develop a framework to evaluate the security of biometric technologies by considering key metrics, such as matching performance and liveness detection. Ultimately, SOFA-B will enable cross-modality comparison so that multiple authenticators can be combined and interchanged to better meet an organization’s desired level of risk mitigation.

The acceleration of connected devices, the IoT and other technology changes ‘at the edge,’ is redoubling interest in public key infrastructures (PKIs). Due to their inherent ability to provide trust at scale, PKIs can clear up the confusion and secure both human and non-human identities.

In this contributed editorial, Janice Kephart, partner with IDSP and former member of the 911 Commission, outlines her thoughts on the current national debate over the recently-proposed travel restrictions. The focus, she says, should be on strengthening vetting processes for all incoming travelers and increasing use of biometrics …

Today there are more than two million apps in Apple’s App Store, which is why the phrase, “there’s an app for that” is so common. In fact, some people don’t even carry a physical wallet at all times since “digital wallets” are such popular features on smartphones. Needless to say, there is an app for just about everything. Everything except for digital identity.

Modern video surveillance systems are not just improving security and capturing incidents for law enforcement use. Today they are also enabling organizations to better serve customers and make actionable decisions that improve operations and streamline costs. This dual use of video surveillance technology is helping expand funding for these powerful systems.

Federated identity allows credentials to be shared across domains, services or relying parties. It enables people to conduct transactions securely and effortlessly while ensuring destination services don’t receive information that users have not consented to share. The same model that enables payment card systems to share …