After the 2001 terrorist attacks a lot of wild claims were made about facial recognition technology. The modality might finally be living up to the hype. Microsoft has enabled it for access with Hello for Windows 10 users, MasterCard wants to use it to verify payments and other financial institutions are using it to authenticate customers on mobile devices. Still, it’s use spotting suspects in crowds and protecting airports and borders remains the brass ring for security professionals.

The P&A Group is an employee benefits firm that helps employers manage employee retirement accounts, flex spending programs and 401K data. For P&A, protecting their clients’ employee data is mission critical.

Victims of data breaches think they are unique, that some hacker or nation state has targeted them specifically and taken them down with a complex, one of a kind hack that will never be seen again. This isn’t the case. Over the last three years, just 12 scenarios represent more than 60% of Verizon’s data […]

Research from Visa and MasterCard shows that consumers are becoming more comfortable with using biometrics to authorize payments. Both payment companies are working to bring more biometric options to the consumer.

SecureAuth has added behavioral biometrics to its adaptive authentication platform. So while already measuring multiple attributes about a user the system also know measure keystroke and mouse movements as well.

Sharing passwords is a necessity at some points but as a rule is nod advised. LastPass surveyed users on trends in sharing passwords. Some 95% of those surveyed admit to sharing six passwords with other people. Typically the sharing is with a spouse or significant other and child – 76% and 26% respectively.

Gemalto and Symbiont are working together to enable financial services organizations to securely execute smart contracts and other blockchain-based transactions; the GSA has tapped CertiPath’s TrustMonitor to ensure the health of its identity issuance systems and the health of the other participants in the federal trust fabric.

President Obama released the Cybersecurity National Action Plan that will urge citizens to move to multi-factor authentication, replace legacy systems that are difficult to secure and create a Federal Chief Information Officer.