The Nymi band has received a lot of attention since it was first announced three-years ago. The wearable, biometric band uses an individual’s electro cardiogram for authentication and then transmits the credential using NFC or BLE for physical or logical access.

ABI Research forecasts the global biometrics market will reach more than $30 billion by 2021; Vision-Box is providing facial recognition technology to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a deployment at three JFK arrival terminals; Infineon Technologies AG in collaboration with Mobile Payment Solutions Co. Ltd. have launched a new NFC security module series designed for fitness trackers and other wearables.

Researchers on the International Space Station are using PKI and digital certificates to secure research with earthbound scientists; in news that may not be surprising to IT security professionals, passwords are failing; ABI Research forecasts the global biometrics market will reach more than $30 billion by 2021; FIDO Alliance hosting financial services seminar.

NEC Corp. has developed a biometric system that measures an individual’s ear canal for identification. The technology uses an earbud to measure individually unique acoustic characteristics and takes about a second.

Brainprint is the latest biometric that can enable access by measuring a brain’s reaction to different stimuli. Researchers at Binghamton University in New York have developed a way to verify a person by measuring the brain’s response to certain stimuli. Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Zhanpeng Jin spoke with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about the research.

Finland taps Gemalto for ePassports and announces certification of Quebec facility; ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Mobile Access has been implemented on more than 100,000 guest rooms worldwide; The FIDO Alliance announced that more than 100 solutions are now FIDO Certified; Swivel Secure, a provider of adaptive multi-factor authentication, announced the launch of Swivel Cloud.

Patricia Wolfhope joined the biometrics industry after her then 7-year-old daughter was almost abducted. At that time she was working at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and was shocked that law enforcement wasn’t taking advantage of the different technologies available to catch perpetrators.

Celeste Thomasson’s first major involvement with biometrics came about five years ago while she was general counsel for international technology group SAFRAN, playing a role in the acquisition of L-1 but her interest in biometrics emerged as a science back in the early 2000s.

Data breaches are common and even a risk-based, multi-layered defense isn’t perfect. The problem with protecting data will be more of an issues as an increasing number of devices come online with the IoT. Biometrics will play an important role in securing all this data in the future with this new identity ecosystem.

Kim Mills was working in the U.S. Visitor Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program in 2004 when Congress mandated that the Department of Homeland Security implement a biometric-based entry and exit system. Since then she has been involved in a number of biometric deployments, including 10-prints at ports of entry and working on different system for biometric exit of the U.S.