Former U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft will discuss the critical need for innovative security technologies that strike a balance between access, privacy and usability in a keynote address at InfoSec World 2008 sponsored by Ceelox, an industry leader in biometric software and encryption solutions.“Personal and corporate data continues to be compromised at an alarming […]
You might think that a company founded in 1921 would be slow on the uptake of cutting edge information technology. Not so for White Castle. This company has found a recipe for saving millions of dollars a year on processing paperwork for its 12,000 employees, and one of the ingredients is biometrics.
When an employee uses […]
With the aim of boosting security in the financial services industry, ISO, the world’s largest developer of international standards, has issued a new biometric standard for financial firms.
Biometrics include technologies such as voice identification —authenticating the identity of a person based on their voice —as well as fingerprinting, iris scanning and facial recognition.
ISO said the […]
The White House National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management will now allow interagency governmental sharing of biometric identification.
It doesn’t seem like much of a story at first glance, but the Federal government has been working steadily on a government-wide standard for biometrics data capture, storage, and sharing. Currently each agency […]
BioLink announces its contribution to an e-passport project launched in the Bahamas, which is expected to cover 255.000 citizens.
Introduction of e-passports enhanced with biometrics is intended to ensure the safety of passport holders and the security of confidential data stored in a passport against fraudulent use, including the use of lost or stolen passports. E-passports […]