The FIDO Alliance believes its standardized approaches to authentication can help Federal agencies better meet the goals of securing employee and contractor access to digital networks and services. The concept expands the current approach to PIV derived credentials to combine FIDO and PIV, adding a FIDO lightweight key pair on the mobile device.

Promising secure biometric authentication from airport ID and check-in to boarding, Gemalto and IER launched their new Fly to Gate offering. IER is a leading developer of terminals and integrated solutions for major air and rail travel networks. Adding Gemalto’s biometric and document verification capabilities to the IER suite, the plan is to create an […]

A new document security feature is creating unique biometric fingerprints for secure ID documents, by mapping patterns of tiny holographic particles spread randomly on a passport, card or banknote. It enables documents to be checked for authenticity — that the specific secure ID document matches the holder — and provides insight into the compromised document if a fraudulent ID was created using pieces from a genuine ID.

In a new white paper, The Chertoff Group stresses that one-time passwords are proving to be a less-than-ideal long term replacement for passwords. Instead they stress that policymakers and implementers should consider multi-factor authentication approaches based on public-key cryptography, specifying either recommendations for …

A new AFIS system helped solve a decades old crime in Florida, hinting to a future where advancing technology makes it tough for criminals to hide. Biometrics are improving at a Moore’s Law pace and the future looks good for law enforcement and grim for the bad guys.

Recent reports from Gartner are promoting some bullish projections for enterprise use of mobile credentials and cloud-based physical access control systems. SecureIDNews talked with report author David Mahdi about the future of next-gen PACS and why Gartner sees a fairly rapid migration from traditional hosted PACS and card-based credentials.

With titles like the Indigent Mole and Acumulus Datum, the 2017 Verizon Data Breach Digest reads more like a compilation of short crime novels than an IT report. The authors take this serious subject matter and make it an entertaining read, which should help ensure that the underlying IT security messages are more readily consumed by non-IT decision makers.