Category Archives: biometric security

What’s Going Into NIST’s New Digital Identity Guidelines?

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One of this year’s biggest positive cybersecurity events comes from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For the first time since 2017, NIST is updating its digital identity guidelines.  These new guidelines will help set the course for best practices in handling digital identity for organizations across all sectors. What is Digital Identity? […]

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Biometrics: Choosing the Right Option for Your Security

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Do you know who your customers are? Not their demographics, but each customer as they enter your online portal and provide their name, address and credit card number. Or, what about the customer who requests the right to be forgotten and have personal information deleted from your system? Identity verification is required in many, if […]

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When Your Heartbeat Becomes Data: Benefits and Risk of Biometrics

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Knowing who your users are today is more important than ever. This explains, in part, why integrating biometric usage into identity and access management (IAM) appears appealing. Throw in some artificial intelligence (AI) to help manage all these data points, and the future of biometrics looks pretty wild. The appeal of using biometrics for identity […]

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Machine Learning: With Great Power Come New Security Vulnerabilities

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Understanding the basic vulnerabilities and prevention tactics associated with machine learning is the first step toward combating these emerging threats.

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Will the Future of Authentication Run Into a Privacy Wall?

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Digital identify, technological innovation, authentication and data privacy issues are not aligned. This impacts how we handle relationships and business. Policy issues must be resolved.

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7 Can’t-Miss Cybersecurity Lessons From Black Hat USA and Vegas Security Week

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Black Hat USA and DEF CON revealed some shocking developments in IoT and biometric security, providing important cybersecurity lessons for enterprise security professionals.

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Facing the Promise and Peril of Facial Recognition for Authentication

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Great security depends on the ability to know who is authorized and who is not. This applies to both physical and digital security. But how? Increasingly, one answer is facial recognition.

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Don’t Believe Your Eyes: Deepfake Videos Are Coming to Fool Us All

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Deepfake videos that are indistinguishable from authentic videos are coming, and we can scarcely imagine what they’ll be used for. We should start preparing for the worst.

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AI May Soon Defeat Biometric Security, Even Facial Recognition Software

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Threat actors will soon gain access to artificial intelligence (AI) tools that will enable them to defeat multiple kinds of authentication systems, even biometric security.

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Multifactor Authentication Delivers the Convenience and Security Online Shoppers Demand

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When framed as an innovative, even “cool” feature, multifactor authentication can deliver the security online retail customers demand without diminishing the user experience.

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