The Security Industry Association (SIA) and SecureIDNews have announced the winners of the 2019 Women in Biometrics Awards. The winners come from a variety of different sectors, but were all selected for their pioneering contributions to the biometric identity and security industry. The four 2019 winners are Debra Marcopulos, Dana Michalski, Nicole Spaun, and Sherry…
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…
Frost & Sullivan is singing the praises of Dresden-based Cognitec, recognizing the biometrics specialist with the 2019 Global Customer Value Leadership Award. The award is intended for companies that implement strategies to increase value and ROI for their customers, and was bestowed to this year’s winner in recognition of Cognitec’s FaceVACS line of biometric solutions.…
Nok Nok Labs is celebrating a glowing start to 2019 after a string of major industry accolades. The run began with the 2019 GLOMO Awards, where Nok Nok’s S3 Authentication Suite was named the Best Mobile Authentication and Security Solution when prizes were handed out during last Month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. A few…
“From all of this great news, the key takeaway is that the time to deploy FIDO is now.” – Andrew Shikiar, Chief Marketing Officer, FIDO Alliance The FIDO Alliance has a lot to celebrate lately, including winning SC Media’s 2019 Editor’s Choice Award at RSAC 2019 this month. Acknowledging the win in a post on…
“Our F.CODE solution is recognized as a reliable security system based on biometrics.” JCB’s biometric cards received two prizes during the Cards and Electronic Payments International Asia (CEPI) Summit and Awards, taking home Best Security Initiative and Best NFC Security Initiative at the 5th annual conference at the end of 2018. The cards are based…
Jumio was one of the biggest winners at the 2019 InfoSec Awards. The company received prizes for Best Product in Biometrics and Best Product in Fraud Prevention, and was also recognized as the Market Leader in Compliance. The announcement bolsters Jumio’s impressive 2019 awards haul, which already includes two BIG Innovation and four Cybersecurity Excellence…
Jumio has garnered more recognition in the wake of its 2019 BIG Innovation Award. The company has announced that it has been ranked 29th overall – and 2nd in the Security category – on Fast Company’s 2019 list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. The Fast Company list features companies spread across 35 different industries…
Jumio has added another trophy to its mantle. The digital security company has received a 2019 BIG Innovation Award from the Business Intelligence Group, an accolade that follows the two Golden Bridge Awards and two Cyber Defense Awards that Jumio won in 2018. “We are thrilled to be honoring Jumio,” said Maria Jimenez, the COO…
Delta Air Lines has been named the “Best Long-Haul Airline” in the 24th annual Business Travel Awards, thanks in part to its pioneering work with biometric technologies. In a statement announcing the award win, Delta said that Business Travel Awards judges, a mix of industry experts and the Buying Business Travel magazine’s editorial team, “called…
“IDEMIA’s solution is a mobile application that is designed to leverage one of two biometric factors for user authentication…” IDEMIA has come out a winner in Juniper Research’s Future Digital Awards. Its CloudCard+ solution took the top prize in the category of “Best Payment Authentication Platform/Solution”, ahead of runner-up Accertify and its Dynamic Risk Vectors…
OneSpan has been awarded the title of Best in Class in Javelin’s inaugural 2018 Mobile Biometrics Platform Awards. The company found itself in the top ranking of all three categories of Javelin’s “Mobile Biometrics Platform Scorecard” – “Functional”, “Innovative”, and “Tailored”. Other companies designated “Leaders” in these categories include HYPR, Nuance Communications, Samsung SDS, and mobile biometrics…
“Daon has been named a Leader – the highest ranking, ahead of Contenders, Followers, and Laggards – in the category of Functional…” Daon has been named a Leader in Javelin’s 2018 Mobile Biometrics Platform Awards. This is the inaugural year for the awards, based on what Javelin calls its “Mobile Biometrics Platform Scorecard”. According to…
“FindBiometrics applauds this year’s winners and the rest of the nominees for helping to push the biometric security industry forward both in terms of technological and business innovation, and in terms of bringing about greater representation in the industry.” The five winners of the Security Industry Association‘s 2018 Women in Biometrics Awards have been revealed.…
Jumio has been named a winner in two categories of Cyber Defense Magazine’s Cyber Defense 2018 Global Awards, with judges recognizing the company in the area of “Best Product Biometrics” and as the “Next Gen InfoSec Startup of the Year”. The company was, of course, recognized for its Netverify solution, which revolves around the use…
Jumio has won two Golden Bridge Awards in recognition of its Netverify authentication solution. The company took a Bronze award in the category of “Security Solution for Enterprise (Large) Innovations”, and a Gold award in “Access Compliance and Risk Management Innovations”, with judges evidently appreciating the platform’s utility for easy customer authentication and onboarding. Netverify…
The European Association for Biometrics, a non-profit industry association, has presented three European researchers with awards recognizing their efforts. One of the academics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid’s Ruben Tolosana, received the European Biometrics Industry Award for a thesis entitled “Incorporating Touch Biometrics to Mobile Passwords,” which detailed a mobile authentication system in which a user…
“Based on multispectral imaging technology, the ISO/IEC 30107-3 certified sensor incorporates on-device encryption, tamper detection, and liveness detection.” HID Global‘s Lumidigm V400-BX fingerprint sensor has been named Security Products Magazine’s New Product of the Year in the category of “Access Control–Biometrics”, the company has announced. Based on multispectral imaging technology, the ISO/IEC 30107-3 certified sensor incorporates on-device…
“From face scanning at the airport to iris authentication on your smartphone, biometrics technology is an increasingly prominent part of everyday life. And yet half the population – women – are still underrepresented in the biometrics industry. This imbalance has real consequences, with an MIT Media Lab study having shown prominent facial recognition systems are more…