Five companies have received more than $7 million for projects supporting the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. These new pilots will join the five that were awarded a year ago. The national strategy aims to support collaboration between the private sector, advocacy groups and public-sector agencies to create an identity ecosystem that enables […]

The inclusion of a fingerprint scanner on Apple’s latest iPhone was one of the worst kept secrets leading up to the device’s September launch event. Rumors had been circulating on gadget blogs for months about the possible biometric inclusion. So to affirm what the world already knew, the computing giant made the iPhone’s biometric utility […]

Lumidigm shows significant market presence in Latin America Biometrics technology provider, Lumidigm, has established itself as a supplier of fingerprint technology for bank ATMs in Latin America. Several of private and public sector banks along with many ATM manufacturers in Brazil have chosen Lumidigm as their biometric provider. Lumidigm reports some 50,000 ATM units deployed in […]

By Charles McColgan, CTO, TeleSig According to the Ponemon Institute, 55% of small businesses across the U.S. had some form of data breach and 53% had multiple breaches. More than 50% is a scary number, and data breaches can impact all organizations, big and small. Just consider the recent examples from some very high profile […]

A partnership between Web-based real estate broker Allre and miiCard will provide customers with a real estate transaction platform that securely connects homeowners and buyers, enabling home purchases and sales completely online and independent of real estate agents. Allre has announced that the partnership with miiCard, an online identity proofing service, will save homeowners time, […]

There was a time in the not-so-distant past where “one card that would rule them all,” was a hotly discussed topic. Credit, debit, transit, multiple loyalty schemes and possibly even identification would all be placed on to one smart card for use everywhere and anywhere. Conferences dedicated sessions to the discussion of multi-purpose smart cards, […]

The two-factor authentication market will touch $5.45 billion by the year 2017, predicts MarketsandMarkets. The report looks at the market by authentication type, application and geography and predicts a compound annual growth of 17.3%. Multi-factor authentication refers to user and employee authentication that uses two or more verifying authentication techniques – hardware token, one-time password (OTP), password/PIN, […]

Four out of every five data breaches occur because of exploited or stolen credentials. This key finding from Verizon’s 2013 Data Breach Investigation Report has helped escalate concerns about hacking to critical levels. Richard Clarke, the former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism, expressed concerns for U.S. computer networks, critical infrastructure and even […]

The United States Postal Service has tapped Securekey to run the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCCX). The value of the contract could be more than $15 million over three years, with a minimum value of $5.7 million. The Federal Cloud Credential exchange will enable citizens to use select third-party credentials to access U.S. government sites and […]

Finally, a video game tailor made for the avid RegardingID reader. Data Dealer is a new online game from a group of Austrian game developers that is all about collecting and selling people’s personal data. According to Data Dealer’s official site, the game is full of “irony and gleeful sarcasm,” but is ultimately a game […]