Every morning I do a quick pat down to check for essentials: Phone? Check. Wallet? Check. Keys? Check. These three belongings are basic representations of my identity and are woven into my daily activities. But what happens when I go through the check-down process and find one of my essential items is missing? I’m overcome with an immediate sense of dread, followed by a tremendous sense of urgency to recover or replace what I lost.

Gemalto has begun rolling out new driver licenses across Maryland; NEC announced a series of trials for cashless payment services using its facial recognition technologies; Entrust Datacard completed integration between the Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Smart Credential and the BlackBerry 10 Smart Card Service Framework; SureID Inc. celebrated two-years of PIV-I issuance; Daon launched FIDO Quick Start.

Security architect have a wealth of experience with identity management — but can they take what they have learned with employees and apply it to the burgeoning customer identity market? While some say consumer IAM is different from that used by employees, with some changes it can be adapted to used for customers as well.

Biometric technologies are increasingly being used by financial institutions so customers can easily access account info on mobile devices. While some welcome the change there has been a backlash with some concerned over the possible theft of personal data and what that would mean for customers.

United Kingdom companies want to work together to have a better idea of who they are dealing with online and come up with better digital ID options, according to a white paper released by Innovate Identity and sponsored by the Open Identity Exchange. The main conclusion from this project is that there is significant enthusiasm […]

Marc-Anthony Signorino has resigned as the executive director of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group and Sarah Schacht will be the new operations manager.

Gemalto supplying Russian banks with smartphone-based secure software app solution; Infineon unveils a FIDO-certified BLE reference design for wireless authentication tokens; Versasec partnered with Yubico; AdvanIDe launched MIFARE contactless inlays.