Biometrics became a big part of Janice Kephart’s work after the September 11 attacks, but she’s been involved with the identity market since the late 90’s. She served as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology and Terrorism where she was responsible for conducting investigations into counter-terrorism issues and had oversight of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. She put together the only Congressional hearing into the foreign terrorist threat prior to 9/11.

Galois is the final winner of the fourth round of NSTIC pilots. The company and its partners will build tools that rely on biometric authentication to enable the storing and sharing of private information online and integrating mobile device, IoT and transit application for secure home applications.

Securing construction sites has typically been done with walls bad barbed wire but companies are starting to use biometrics and other identity technologies to know who’s on site. Using these technologies in a construction environment can pose some challenged but also reap some rewards.

VASCO Data Security announced two new DIGIPASS authenticators; DriveNow has done away with key and instead is using contactless smart cards; MorphoTrak opened its first West Virginia facility in Morgantown and plans to establish a Program Management and Engineering office at the new facility.

AVISIAN Publishing – publishers of re:ID magazine and SecureIDNews — is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural Women in Biometrics Identity 2015 awards. The awards were presented at the Borderpol North American Meeting on Sept. 10 at the DuPont Circle Hotel in Washington, D.C. The judges ultimately selected five awardees from more than 50 nominations received.

Tractica predicts that the worldwide biometrics technology market will grow from $2 billion in 2015 to $14.9 billion by 2024; Suprema unveiled BioStar 2.1, an update to the biometric security platform; Nok Nok Labs announced that it has completed the second and final closing of $8 million in its Series C Financing, raising a total of $16.25M.

Goode Intelligence’s latest research identifies that the rapid adoption of biometrics on mobile and wearable devices will deliver frictionless authentication and identity verification services across the banking industry. The consultancy forecasts that by 2020, there will be more than 620 million mobile banking app downloads that support biometrics for customer authentication and transaction verification.

AVISIAN is sponsoring an awards program to honor women leading the charge in biometric identity. The use of biometrics is key to securing physical and digital identities in the future and with this in mind its time to recognize innovative women who are working toward a more secure world by guiding this crucial market.

Acuity Market Intelligence forecasts that between 2014 and 2020 nearly 12.9 billion mobile biometric apps will be downloaded to smart mobile devices by 2.2 billion mobile biometric users; HYPR Biometric Security released its Tokenization SDK to the public for third party integration; Sonavation has reached an milestone by developing and bonding an ultrasound biometric sensor compatible with Corning Gorilla Glass.

Infineon Technologies announced a FIDO Certified single-chip USB token reference design supporting the FIDO Alliance Universal 2nd Factor authentication standard; Gemalto holds on to its number one position for the second consecutive year in ABI Research’s Payment & Banking Card Technologies competitive assessment; Olcsan CAD and EyeVerify announced a multi-year licensing and marketing agreement; Hotel security provider VingCard Elsafe has changed its name to ASSA ABLOY Hospitality.