Caryn Seidman-Becker started her career as a risk arbitrage analyst in the early 90’s and is now chairman and CEO at CLEAR.
Seidman-Becker led the acquisition of CLEAR with other partners and helped lead the company out of bankruptcy.

Meet the first of eight finalists for the 2016 Women in Biometrics Awards: Liane Moriyama, administrator, Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center. Moriyama has more than 20-years experience in biometrics and helped bring the first AFIS system to Hawaii.

Defense Department taps Aware for biometric collection, screening; HID places NFC tags in New York and Easter Island for charity campaign; ImageWare and Aurionpro partner for biometric banking kiosks; Thursby released the new PKard Reader case for iPhone 6/6s.

The Fall 2016 Regarding ID magazine is online and includes stories covering Blockchain and identity; e-gates easing international travel; advanced card materials and desktop issuance and the future of identity within the federal government.

The FIDO Alliance is working with EMVCo to try and make in-store and in-app purchases more secure. FIDO will develop a new technical specification into its authentication suite to fulfill use cases provided by EMVCo

The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University released a report examining how the FBI and law enforcement officials across the country are using facial recognition technology.

Social login is one way to ease password fatigue and is just about a must have for organizations that want to communicate with customers. A Janrain survey found that 75% of all consumers are frustrated but the security scheme and 58% of consumers saying a new password keeps them from signing up for a new account.

NIST released a proposed framework that can be used to quantify the security of authentication solutions and is looking for comments; Gemalto collaborating with Alibaba Group’s YunOS to provide connectivity and security for the OS; HYPR Corp. announced that it has secured $3 million in funding.