Research and Markets has published a new market forecast report detailing the future of biometrics technology in the health care sector. The new report, entitled “Health care Biometrics Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends And Forecast, 2013 – 2019,” insists that security is a primary concern in the health care, especially as […]

Entrust IdentityGuard named to FIPS 201 Approved Product List Digital identity and identification security specialist, Entrust has revealed that its IdentityGuard authentication solution has been approved by U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) for inclusion on the FIPS 201 Approved Products List (APL). Reviewed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as well as […]

A new report from Ericsson suggests that biometrics technology in the consumer sector may yet be welcomed with open arms. Ericsson’s report details the top 10 consumer technology trends expected for the New Year, 2014. In at number two on the list of trends is the substitution of fingerprints for passwords. After polling a mixture […]

Mobile health company, Biometrac has developed a new mobile health software platform that leverages a fingerprint scanner to track vaccine doses, monitor disease progression and act as a medical record. As reported by MedCity News, Biometrac’s technology is being deployed primarily in developing countries to track tuberculosis, but for the long term, the company suspects […]

A report from Smart Insights has laid out a comprehensive analysis of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) market, including available authentication solutions, future adoption rates and the potential impact on smart authentication. The report, entitled “Smart Authentication to Tackle BYOD Issues,” posits that the BYOD experience and the resulting employee mindset may trigger changes […]

Biometrics veteran Hector Hoyos has launched a new venture, Hoyos Labs, which hopes to rethink how biometrics is used to authenticate and secure identity. Hoyos Labs is a digital infrastructure security company that along with the Cambridge Innovation Center, maintains its own research and development division on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. […]

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has issued a broad agency announcement in its search for prospective vendors and partners for the forthcoming Janus project, which seeks to improve facial recognition systems. IARPA is seeking to improve upon its unconstrained face recognition offerings by funding research that draws expertise from a variety of fields. […]

Bytes using biometrics to cut overtime claims Bytes Universal Systems has released a new biometrics solution for its SAMRASplus enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite. The new NAVAJO Exception Reporting solution is designed to help organizations combat excessive overtime, invalid sick leave, and other time or attendance-related fraud. NAVAJO Exception Reporting, part of Bytes’ NAVAJO biometrics […]

The United States Postal Service is trying to reinvent itself as a cutting edge provider of cloud-based identity systems. Federated identity is a hot topic among relying parties and identity providers and one of the most anticipated pilots will be the U.S. Postal Service’s work with the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCCX, pronounced F-Six). “The […]

Goode Intelligence has published a report predicting that the global market for mobile devices – smart phones, phablets and tablets – with fingerprint sensor technology will exceed 990 million by the year 2017. Fingerprint sensors are expected to be a common feature in mobile devices, and according to Goode’s “Mobile Biometric Security – Market Forecast […]