Swiping left and right to find love using the popular Tinder app just got safer thanks to Telesign. The company’s phone number risk analysis and multi-factor authentication solution is weeding out fake users before they can enter Tinder’s dating pool.

Payfriendz, a P2P payments app, is using Veridu to confirm the identity of users. Instead of traditional identity vetting a P2P payments side is using social media score to establish an identity.

Jeremy Grant is leaving the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, but before he departs he shared some of his thoughts on how the strategy has progressed over the last four years.

MedImpact, a pharmacy benefit manager, is enabling physicians to use the FIDO Alliance protocol to use biometrics for access to patient prescription records.

Cryptomathic is calling for new European Union standards to recognize cloud-based digital signature schemes; TSA’s PreCheck passes 1 million enrollees; HID Global announced the commercial availability of HID Trusted Tag Solutions; and Bell ID announced that recent growth of host card emulation has seen the company strengthen its global position in the mobile payments market.

Microsoft announced that the latest version of its operating system will come equipped with Windows Hello and support finger, face and iris biometrics. If a system already comes with a fingerprint scanner it can automatically be enabled for the consumer to access the system, web sites or applications. Facial and iris recognition will require additional hardware.

GlobalSign debuted its Identity Relationship and Access Management solution designed to simplify the management of customer and partner identities and their access to e-Service and portals; Identiv Inc. announced that it has entered a partnership with 3M to integrate its readers into 3M’s MiY multi-factor authentication biometric devices; Zwipe has joined the aptiQ Alliance Program; 10Duke releases its cloud-based Identity-as-a Service product.

Yahoo might not be killing the password outright but is enabling consumers to replace them with one-time passcodes. Instead of accessing a Yahoo account with the traditional login information, account holders can now opt to be send a code to their mobile device. After choosing the new security feature and enrolling the mobile device the user will receive a temporary password to access information.

IBM Research has has a solution to the online identity problem: Identity Mixer, a zero knowledge identity and access management system that only gives up the bare minimum information to grant access. The cryptographic code acts as an agent knowing a consumers secrets, while revealing as little as possible to the relying parties.

Tablets and handsets have become the go to devices for employee use, replacing desktop and laptop computers. Using the mobile device as an identity token is the dream for enterprises that may soon be realized. As more devices deploy biometrics, use near field communication and Bluetooth low energy, securing devices and using them as tokens is becoming a reality. Organizations are also working on standards that will make the ubiquitous mobile the token everyone owns.