As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS), fingerprint matching has become a part of everyday life. Law enforcement agencies use fingerprints to solve crimes and ordinary people unlock their smart phones, clock in at work or pay for cafeteria lunches. Though the foundations for the technology are more than 1500 years old, its applications have never been more relevant.
02 Dec, 2014A history of AFIS
02 Dec, 2014Abandoning identity in favor of attributes
Identity online is a vexed problem. The majority of Internet fraud today can be related to weaknesses in the way we authenticate people electronically. Internet identity is terribly awkward too. Unfortunately today we still use password techniques dating back to 1960s mainframes that were designed for technicians, by technicians.
01 Dec, 2014Should prox replace passwords in health care?
A step back, rather than a security upgrade
Health care is looking to secure access to patient records and many different technologies have been deployed. Prox cards are one technology that has been used by some in health care and has some issues when being used for network access.
28 Nov, 2014What hydrogen-powered flying cars tell us about digital identity in 2019
Part of the future of identity series
In order to predict what will happen with the future of digital identity, Alan Goode also looks at the past to try and predict how consumers will be accessing online services in the future.
27 Nov, 2014RoboCoin drops biometrics at Bitcoin kiosks
Removing the palm vein biometrics from the Robcoin ATMs was not reflection on the technology but more of a business decision to make the user experience simpler.
26 Nov, 2014Gallagher making inroads into fed physical access control
Gallagher started out helping businesses with animal management, farming, wild game and zoos but realized that protecting and managing animals of the four-legged variety could translate to securing facilities for two-legged people. The company is now making waves in the U.S. federal space with its physical access control products.
26 Nov, 2014How we democratized identity, took back control and changed the world
Part of the future of identity series
Dan Blum goes to the future to look at how personal clouds are going to empower consumers to have choices and enable a better and more secure online identity.