Veridu wants to make the consumer authentication process as painless as possible for the consumer and retailer by using a system that looks at the overall quality and depth of the consumer’s online footprint and generates a score on the credibility of the consumer’s identity.

When it comes to near field communication a lot of the focus is on using the technology for payments. But NFC is gaining attention for other applications as discussed at the 2014 NFC Solutions Summit, presented by the Smart Card Alliance.

Full-disk encryption is often viewed as a black-box panacea for all data security issues but like any tool or system designed for security it is by no means bulletproof.

BYOD challenges enterprises with two stark realties, first, they need to be readying their workforces to use mobile devices and they must make sure that they are able to provide a level of security for mobile devices that matches the level found on the desktop.

Gemalto’s Protiva Cloud Confirm is compatible with HP CloudSystem under the HP Helion cloud portfolio; FIME extended its ISO quality assurance accreditation under ISO17025; the Open Standard for Public Transport Alliance revealed that São Paulo Transporte and Swiss Post Solutions will utilize its CIPURSE standard; and Ram Shriram, a founding board member of Google and former executive at Amazon.com, has joined strong authentication specialist Yubico

Bluetooth low energy has been included in the majority of smart phones for the past couple of years and is emerging as a complement or even replacement to NFC, WiFi, and bar code technologies.

With sales of tablets and smart phones on the rise — 2.2 billion in 2014 — hackers are switching their focus to target the mobile devices in order to gain access to personal information. Gartner has some suggestions on how enterprises can be protected from these attacks.