Entrust Datacard released IdentityGuard 11.0 bringing new capabilities to customers that are facing challenges as digital, cloud and mobile applications are changing their businesses. The latest update offers a range of authenticators and intelligent technologies to enable trusted identities and secure transactions.

Daon was awarded a $1.8 million NSTIC grant to explore how senior citizens could benefit from secure digital identity. Major goals were to test the willingness of users to accept the credentials and the willingness of relying parties to move to external identity providers.

Inspired by the idea that people would remember epic poems because they rhyme, two University of Southern California researchers set out to prove a secure and memorable password is possible. What they came up with, at least according to their own experiment, works extremely well.

Confyrm was awarded $2.4 million in 2014 to demonstrate ways to minimize loss when criminals take over online accounts or create fake accounts. The project aims to tackle a key barrier to federated identity: knowing whether accounts used in identity solutions are legitimate and being controlled by their rightful owner.

Nok Nok Labs announced its latest version of the Nok Nok S3 Authentication Suite; Village Hotel in Glasgow launched a mobile app that aims to automate a guest’s stay; OpenSky has published the first in a series of white papers on how enterprises can protect their assets against cyber attacks; Arcanum Technology LLC announced the launch of the N-Kōd.

Enterprises are all dealing with the same issues of managing identities, cloud application and mobile devices, and as these issues are pervasive to most, Ping Identity has chosen to launch the Identity Defined Security Alliance with some partners.

In the past three years the U.S. government has spent more than $20 million on 14 unique pilots to foster a secure, online identity ecosystem. To evaluate if taxpayers have gotten value for the investments, re:ID asked each pilot recipient what they have accomplished and what lessons have been learned. Over the coming weeks we will be posting more details on each of the pilots and lessons learned.

Today we are in password hell. Mainstream media have regular stories about user issues, and massive data breaches are regularly happening to online services – even to large, respected brands that are well-funded and well-managed. The evidence is clear that both users and online services are struggling with passwords.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe appointed members to an Identity Management Standards Advisory Council. This group will advise the Virginia Secretary of Technology on the adoption of identity management standards and the creation of guidance documents

Over the last few years, the cyber security industry has undergone a paradigm shift from focusing solely on attack prevention to taking measures to identify and mitigate threats that have already managed to infiltrate perimeter defenses. Properly segmenting a network and ensuring the efficacy of access control policies is a primary factor in keeping security events from becoming high-profile breaches.