Advancing facial recognition at airports, JetBlue today announced it is the first airline to work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on paperless and deviceless self-boarding. Using technology from SITA, passengers will use facial recognition technology to identify themselves at the gate during boarding. Starting in June, the new process will be available on […]

“We don’t want to confuse existing customers or future customers that Cogent’s been lost or disappeared,” says Gemalto’s Neville Pattinson, in this episode of the re:ID Podcast series. “It’s now an additional part of the Gemalto portfolio. So we’ll continue to brand it in terms of Cogent from a biometrics side.” In the podcast, you’ll learn just what the Gemalto acquisition of 3M’s Identity Management Unit brings to the company’s government and enterprise offerings and how it sets the company up for a deeper run in many large scale identity projects.

When Apple acquired Authentec in 2012, founder Dale Setlak’s patented tech resulted in the initial touchID biometric sensor. Its success heralded the age of biometrics for all. Setlak’s newly issued patent moves the fingerprint authentication from the ubiquitous circular sensor to the entire touch screen, making passive, ongoing and adaptive authentication a likely future on iPhones, iPads and Macbooks.

Back in December 2016, 3M announced that it would sell its identity management business to Gemalto for $850 million. That deal has been completed following approval by the relevant regulatory and antitrust authorities. The acquisition brings biometric tech and additional document security features to Gemalto’s Government Programs offering and, according to a company release, positions […]

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.

As the Trump administration pushes to rapidly increase border security, facial recognition is emerging as the likely modality of choice for Biometric Exit. Customs and Border Protection lead, Larry Panetta cited the existing wealth of photo images — from both citizens and visitors alike — as a key reason for the modality’s choice. A pilot underway on a flight from Atlanta to Tokyo is testing the technology and …

A major hurdle has been cleared in the Morpho acquisition by U.S. private equity firm, Advent International. The European Union antitrust regulators approved the acquisition of Morpho, the biometrics and security operations of the French aerospace company Safran. The approval is conditional on the sale of Morpho’s payment smart card business in France, but Advent […]

Thanks to falling costs, robust applications and more mature hardware, many are predicting a massive increase in the use of iris recognition for identity, authentication and security applications. Early iris scanners required people to place their face against a device, but the current generation no longer needs physical contact with the individual. Iris biometrics can be captured reliably from a distance, and even with subjects that are in motion, adding speed and convenience. The applications and use cases are massive as seen by …