With close to two-thirds of responding companies having suffered a data breach in the past 12 months, 95% reported they would increase cybersecurity spending in the next year. Enterprises are also ramping up authentication procedures with 66% moving beyond user names and password for authentication.

Registered traveler programs are booming as airlines welcome record numbers of passengers. CLEAR, one of the programs that started it all a decade ago, is back and now operating in 13 U.S. airports and three Major League Baseball stadiums.

HID Global has received an order from the U.S. government for the redesign, manufacture and supply of the country’s Green Card; Crossmatch announced that the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has deployed the company’s fingerprint scanner to enroll refugees and migrants entering the country; GMO GlobalSign has previewed its upcoming identity and access management solution.

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the Winter 2015 Regarding ID magazine. Some highlights from this issue include: Wallet holds DNA for digital ID, Protecting kids’ online identities, Municipal governments issuing IDs and Clear IDs resurrected at airports, stadiums.

MasterCard is getting serious about enabling biometric payments for online purchases. Bob Reany, senior vice president of Identity Solutions at MasterCard, talks about the development and implementation of a mobile and biometric authentication strategy that for online purchases.

Changes to the visa waiver program were announced but there is still a security gap. Countries need to link the passport to the traveler though biometrics in order to truly secure borders.

Gemalto has managed a modernization of Guinea’s voter register; IRIS Corporation has inked a $22 million contract to supply ePassports to the Government of Solomon Islands; prizeotel has selected ASSA ABLOY Hospitality to implementing Mobile Access at three locations.