Entrust unveiled its IdentityGuard Mobile Smart Credentials to help enterprises use mobile devices as identity credentials. Available for the Apple iOS, Google Android and RIM BlackBerry mobile platforms, Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Smart Credentials aims to transform mobile devices into multipurpose digital identities for authenticated access to logical networks, cloud applications, physical facilities and building entrances. […]

Facial recognition specialist, Animetrics, adds detail to two-dimensional images to create a 3D structure. Comparing 3D images of a known subject with images captured in the field, one-to-one identification of a person becomes possible. Animetrics system engineer, Sean Doucette, demonstrates use of the software to identify Casey Anthony from a video segment taken while she […]

Hospitals have begun implementing biometrics as a way to verify, authenticate and maintain the safety of patient records. While fingerprint and palm prints are common ways of capturing biometrics, iris scans may be the best solution for this industry, reports Becker’s Hospital Review. Some hospitals have begun implementing iris scans because it’s as unique an […]

Could swipe gestures be the next big biometric factor? Geek.com ponders this notion, as other forms of authentication like passwords and PINs become more difficult to remember. Although many biometric authentication methods have yet to be adopted on a large scale, it’s possible that the swipe might work as an authentication factor. NYU doctoral student […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new software suite called Biometric Conformance Test Software for Data Interchange Formats (BioCTS2012) for biometrics users to test biometrics apps against the NIST standard. The software tests against the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 standard, which provides a defined method for digitally encoding and storing biometric data. […]

Frost & Sullivan found that increasing crime rates and terrorism have helped speed up the adoption of biometrics, particularly in the government vertical in the Asia-Pacific region. In its new study “An Analysis of the Biometrics Market in the Government Vertical in Asia-Pacific,” Frost & Sullivan says that in 2011 the market had revenues in […]

Intercede announced the availability of its MyID CardChecker App for Apple iOS. This app enables government agencies and enterprises to read and display electronic information from PIV, PIV-I, commercial identity verification (CIV) or TWIC smart cards on an iPhone or iPad. Intercede has developed a downloadable mobile app – available in the Apple app store […]

The Emirates Identity Authority claims to hold the world’s largest database of civil integrated biometrics and has applied to the World Record Academy to verify its record. The database holds information from the UAE population register system and as of October 11, it contains 103 million decimal and rounded fingerprints, palm prints, hand print and […]