Acuity Market Intelligence forecasts that between 2014 and 2020 nearly 12.9 billion mobile biometric apps will be downloaded to smart mobile devices by 2.2 billion mobile biometric users; HYPR Biometric Security released its Tokenization SDK to the public for third party integration; Sonavation has reached an milestone by developing and bonding an ultrasound biometric sensor compatible with Corning Gorilla Glass.

More than half of U.S. businesses have suffered some sort of breach and these hacks can cost millions of dollars in damages, according to survey results from Centrify Corp. At the center of protecting IT resources is identity, according to findings from Centrify’s “State of the Corporate Perimeter” survey of more than 400 US and UK IT decision makers.

Gemalto providing the California DMV with Coesys Document Verification software solution; ImageWare Systems inks agreement with OnlineAuction.com to provide mobile biometric security software; Gallagher unveiled its latest products; Versasec announced its latest updates to its smart card management systems; GlobalPlatform publishes TEE white paper.

Corporate IT executives have a pretty good idea of what their identity and access management (IAM) systems can handle. But when setting up an IAM system for customers the landscape changes quite as the systems involve different technologies and different performance requirements.

Banks are flocking to biometrics to secure access to mobile applications. USAA, Tangerine, US Bank and Wells Fargo are just a few of the financial institutions that are enabling biometrics on mobile devices for access to mobile apps.

GlobalPlatform develops specifications for the identity and payments markets and the specifications include a focus on the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). The association has announced the launch of a TEE Security Evaluation Secretariat. Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan spoke with GlobalPlatform Technical Director Gil Bernabeu about the new secretariat and the role of the TEE with identity.

MasterCard is looking at biometrics as a way to cut down on transaction fraud. The payment company will pilot a system that enables customer to choose between fingerprint or facial recognition to confirm a transaction.