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Thales Digital Identity and Security stars in Group earnings bounce-back

Thales Digital Identity and Security is being credited with the rapid growth, as Thales Group reported a bounce-back in its financial…

 

Feitian biometric security key approved by NIST for sensitive data protection

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has validated Feitian’s Biometric FIDO Key Module to the Federal Information…

 

ThreatMark behavioral biometrics draw repeat Gartner recognition for online fraud detection

The 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Online Fraud Detection lists ThreatMark as a ‘Representative Vendor,’ marking the second consecutive recognition of…

 

Top manufacturers consider Zwipe, Idex Biometrics’ platforms for payment cards

A global ‘Tier 1’ smartcard manufacturer is evaluating Zwipe Pay ONE for in-house biometric payment card manufacturing after receiving a shipment…

 

Airside rolls out biometric digital health pass, Amadeus integrates IBMs

Airside‘s fully integrated digital health pass solution has launched, allowing people to use biometrics to secure and easily access their…

 

Rich, young device buyers say they want 3FA, but are they just flirting?

New sponsored research indicates that wealthy, younger consumers are more interested than their peers in two- and three-factor authentication. That…

 

Magic $27M Series A to give developers more passwordless authentication, onboarding options

Plug and play digital identity authentication provider Magic Labs has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round to expand…

 

UN finds storing biometric data on Mauritius ID cards violates privacy

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has found that the legislation which Mauritius passed in 2013 for its biometric smart…

 

France chooses contractors for digital ID scheme management

The French Ministry of the Interior has chosen four firms to develop the management system for its digital identity scheme:…

 

The gamification of biometric surveillance (Not as fun as it sounds)

If everything can be gamified, then life battling blanket facial recognition should be a hoot, though on second thought, “a…

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