2019 is about to come to a close, yet big news in the biometrics industry has continued right up to the end, as this week’s roundup of FindBiometrics’ top stories illustrates. That having been said, it is a somewhat unusual one for its inclusion of two articles from the world of mobile biometrics, first reported…
IDEMIA has added a major accolade to its mantle after being named as Frost & Sullivan’s Global Biometrics Company of the Year for 2019. Frost & Sullivan specifically referenced IDEMIA’s anti-spoofing capabilities while making its decision. Other highlights include IDEMIA’s MorphoWave Compact fingerprint scanner, the F.CODE smart card, and the OneLook multimodal capture device.…
A new report from Frost & Sullivan is calling attention to the growing popularity of as-a-service business solutions. The research firm notes that as-a-service models – which can cover everything from biometrics to infrastructure to identity management – are often more affordable and more convenient than fully packaged, non-service-based alternatives. In that regard, as-a-service solutions…
Onfido has been given Frost & Sullivan’s 2019 European Technology Innovation Award. The award is one of several Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards handed out to regional and global companies in a number of different fields, including customer service and strategic product development. The European Technology award specifically recognizes products with innovative features that…
“The rising instances of identity thefts and cyber crimes are boosting the adoption of multifactor authentication and multimodal technology systems.” Frost and Sullivan is predicting that the expansion of national ID programs will fuel the demand for biometric technology in the Asia-Pacific region over the next few years. In its report, the research firm noted…
A growing number of organizations have begun to document the decline of passwords and the rise of biometric authentication. At least, that’s the takeaway from a new article from SC Magazine that gathers similar reports from a roster of biometrics experts, including Kaspersky Labs, Duo Security, Frost & Sullivan, and IDEX Biometrics. The article specifically…
Earlier this month, Frost & Sullivan released a new report that emphasized the growing importance of behavioral biometrics, arguing that it “will become the main identity verification element in two factor or multifactor authentication.” Now BioCatch is following up with a blog post that highlights the more tangible benefits of the technology. In the post,…
“AI-driven behavioral biometrics will become the main identity verification element in two-factor or multifactor authentication…” A new report from Frost & Sullivan projects major growth for the European biometrics market, which is expected to climb from $4.98 billion to $11.5 billion by 2023. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will fuel much of that growth as performance improvements…
Frost & Sullivan has named NEC as its 2019 Biometrics Company of the Year in the Asia Pacific Region. The accolade is intended to recognize NEC’s pioneering work in multiple segments of the biometrics industry, with multimodal solutions that have integrated face, voice, iris, and fingerprint recognition alongside other forms of biometric identification. “We are…
Growth consultancy Frost & Sullivan has named Gemalto the recipient of its 2018 Middle East & Africa Customer Value Leadership Award. The award is in recognition of PURE, Gemalto’s white label payments platform that is designed to let domestic schemes and private label card issuers offer their own payment cards to customers. The system was used…
The global airport industry increasingly looking to IT solutions to help drive and facilitate growth, with innovative technologies like biometrics being key to those efforts, suggests a new Frost & Sullivan report. Entitled “Digital Transformation in Airports”, the report predicts that by 2023, airport IT spending will reach $4.63 billion, driven largely by growth in…
Security is the top concern for IT administrators when choosing a cloud services provider, says Frost & Sullivan. The finding emerged from the growth consultancy’s IT Decision Maker Survey, in which 45 percent of respondents named security as the main factor in their decision. That’s way above price, which only 27 percent named as the…
The emergence of the Internet of Things presents a huge opportunity for the global security and surveillance sensors market, suggests a new report from Frost & Sullivan. In a statement, the growth consultancy firm announced ‘three big predictions’ for this market: That sensors will form the “physical layer” to IoT-driven machine-to-machine communications; new communication protocols…
While Apple’s iPhone X announcement last month attracted attention primarily for revealing the most substantial redesign of the iPhone to date, a Frost & Sullivan analyst thinks that hidden in the subtext are hints that Apple’s next focus will be on making its own car. In his new report, Frost & Sullivan Connectivity & Telematics…
“…Jumio noted that it doubled its sales in the first half of the year, and that its Netverify platform is now being used to verify almost 200,000 users each day.” Frost & Sullivan has named Jumio the 2017 North American Entrepreneurial Company of the Year for the Biometric Security Solutions Industry. Detailing the company in…
While fingerprint recognition has tended to see strong growth and revenues in the past, new biometric modalities like vein, iris, and facial recognition are seeing “strong adoption across industries,” according to Frost & Sullivan TechVision Senior Industry Analyst Swapnadeep Nayak. That’s one of the key findings in Frost & Sullivan’s new report, “Cybersecurity Innovations in…
Credence ID has won Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 Global New Product Innovation Award. The award was given in recognition of the CredenceTAB, a tablet device first announced by Credence ID last year. The tablet features a built-in FBI PIV FAP 30 fingerprint sensor, a smart card reader, an MRZ reader, and eDocument reading capabilities. In…
IriTech has won the 2017 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation. The company was recognized for its specialty – iris biometrics technology. In a statement announcing the award, Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Mike Valenti praised IriTech’s iris scanning solution as one that “works under direct sunlight at extended side-gazing angle and…
NEC has received the 2017 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Integrated Biometrics Solutions for Public Safety Leadership Award. In a statement announcing the award win, NEC explained that it had been granted in recognition of the company’s “technical leadership and growth performance” in the APAC region last year. Commenting further, Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT…