The promise of biometric technologies is to achieve authentication that is both frictionless and fully secure. With biometric security, the enterprise employee is functionally his or her own password; each individual’s voice, face, or behavior can serve as the basis for authorizing access and protecting the most sensitive company data.

Just days after setting up facial recognition for biometric authentication of international travelers, authorities catch a man traveling under an assumed identity. The arrest came as biometrics are used for more border ID checks.

A food-aid program that is feeding refuges from the Syrian civil war has turned to blockchain and iris recognition to make grocery shopping more efficient and less expensive. The two-year old program could one help refugees regain legal IDs.

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 …