Biometrics News – Behavioral Biometrics BehavioSec is taking home a pair of major awards in recognition of its flagship Behavioral Biometrics Platform. The solution took Gold at the 2019 Golden Bridge Awards in the Authentication Innovations category, and was also selected as the Multifactor Solution of the Year during the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. The Golden…
“We have many customers in common which benefit from the frictionless, deep and continual authentication the BehavioSec solution provides.” – Neil Costigan, CEO, BehavioSec Another leading provider of biometric authentication technology has joined the NICE Actimize X-Sight Marketplace: behavioral biometrics specialist BehavioSec. Launched this past July, the X-Sight Marketplace is a curated FinTech security solutions…
BehavioSec has updated its behavioral biometrics platform ahead of the European Union’s upcoming PSD2 compliance deadline. Version 5.1 of the platform offers better mouse recognition and anomaly detection, in addition to other accuracy and authentication upgrades. The upgraded platform also guards against fraud associated with new accounts. BehavioSec 5.1 will compare the behavior of a…
Money20/20 Europe will run from June 3rd to 5th at Amsterdam’s RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre. FindBiometrics Will be reporting live from the show with interviews and breaking news. BehavioSec will be at next week’s Money20/20 Europe event in Amsterdam, and will enjoy a particularly high profile thanks to a slot for the company’s CEO…
Seeking a boost in its expansion efforts, behavioral biometrics specialist BehavioSec has appointed a new Chief Revenue Officer, Dave Lapin. In a statement announcing Lapin’s appointment, BehavioSec said he brings to the table more than two decades of experience in senior management, including senior sales roles with NCC Group Security Services, IOActive, Cisco Systems, and…
“The system’s operation has also been streamlined, with new threat detection algorithms having reduced the number of end user interactions needed to recognize individuals and potential threats.” BehavioSec has upgraded its behavioral biometrics platform. Version 5.0 of the BehavioSec Behavioral Biometrics Platform is now able to detect the use of Virtual Private Networks and TOR-routed…
A senior BehavioSec executive will deliver a talk at this year’s FS-ISAC Fall Summit, the company has announced. An acronym for “Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center”, the FS-ISAC Fall Summit is aimed at fostering the sharing of intelligence on digital and physical security threats facing the financial services sector. So given the considerable…
BehavioSec is planning to showcase its behavioral biometrics technology at Money20/20 next week. The company’s executives are going to have a busy schedule during the financial services event. BehavioSec says they’ll be meeting with partners, customers, analysts, and media representatives, and that they will show demos of their technology. In a statement announcing the company’s…
BehavioSec is highlighting its technology’s compliance with Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2), the European Union’s major regulation for payment services and transactions. In a new post on its website, BehavioSec points out the PSD2 now requires ‘Strong Customer Authentication‘ (SCA), which it defines as the use of two of three authentication factors – something the…
“In a statement announcing the success of the funding round, BehavioSec said the investment capital ‘will be used to expand global operations and relocate corporate headquarters to the United States.’” Behavioral biometrics specialist BehavioSec has raised $17.5 million in a Series B funding round, the company has announced. The investment round was led by Trident…
A new partnership with BehavioSec has brought behavioral biometrics technology to Crossmatch‘s flagship enterprise security platform. The DigitalPersona platform already supported PIN, password, smart card, and fingerprint security. Now, version 2.3 of the platform also includes BehavioSense, BehavioSec’s solution for assessing typing patterns for user authentication. In a statement announcing the integration, Crossmatch Authentication Market…
Anti-fraud specialist Kount has integrated BehavioSec‘s behavioral biometrics technology into its SaaS platform. The integration brings a new fraud detection tool to the table, confirming users’ identities based on patterns in how they interact with their devices through activities like typing and mouse movements. In a statement announcing the integration, Kount COO Rich Stuppy explained that…
“BehavioSec, a member of the International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA), specializes in the emerging field of behavioral biometrics; its technology analyzes users’ interaction patterns with their devices, as well as other metadata, to assess potential fraud threats” Appdome and BehavioSec have teamed up to bring more sophisticated authentication technologies into mobile apps. Appdome specializes in integrating…
The International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) has welcomed four new members to its ranks, and they include some big names. One is the University of Buffalo’s Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors, or CUBS. The academic body researches and develops biometric technologies for both civilian and government security applications, and as such could be…
Nationwide Building Society has won the Retail Banking Security Innovation of the Year award for a mobile solution developed with Unisys and BehavioSec. The award was bestowed at this year’s Retail Banking Conference & Awards. The recognition is for an app developed by the companies this year which uses behavioral biometrics to authenticate users. That…
Behavioral biometrics company BehavioSec has announced a partnership between itself, Nationwide, and Unisys. The central focus of the team up, which has been taking place over the past few months, has been the development of a prototype app aimed at making behavioral biometrics a standard feature in digital services. While the company and its partners…
Mobile identity solutions provider TeleSign is introducing behavioral biometrics to its suite of offerings. Called TeleSign Behavior ID, the system assesses patterns in a user’s keystrokes, mouse manipulation, interface interaction, and other metrics to establish a unique profile essentially based on the user’s behavior. The overall aim is to prevent hack attacks, and particularly account…
Biometric technology is expected to enjoy a bright spotlight at next week’s Money20/20 Europe conference, with growing enthusiasm from some big players in FinTech. Fittingly, a discussion panel on biometrics moderated by FindBiometrics President Peter O’Neill has just announced another participant: Craig Ramsay, HSBC Payments and Cash Management’s Head of Innovation. The financial services company…
Mobile identity solutions provider TeleSign is bringing behavioral biometrics to its platform. The company has announced that a new partnership will bring BehavioSec technology to the authentication system. BehavioSec’s technology will provide an extra layer of authentication security to the platform, with its keystroke, mouse movement, and touch-based interaction analytics complementing TeleSign’s existing authentication technologies.…