FaceTec’s Rich Lobovsky Demystifies Biometric Liveness Detection in Conversation with FindBiometrics

Posted on April 2, 2019

In 2019 there are two critical trends developing in biometrics: liveness detection for authentication, and user education. That’s why FindBiometrics Managing Editor Peter Counter recently interviewed Rich Lobovsky, SVP Business Development, FaceTec. Their conversation centers around the biometric face authentication specialist’s latest entry in a series of educational white papers, “Liveness Detection: Biometric Frontline or…

The Week’s Most-Read Biometrics News: March 9-15

Facial recognition proved to be the hot topic with respect to this week’s most-read articles on FindBiometrics, though a couple of other important trends also shared the spotlight. One of the latter was the ongoing integration of biometric technologies into consumer laptops and PCs, in this case from Microsoft: Microsoft Patents a Windows Key Fingerprint…

New FaceTec White Paper Spotlights Crucial Need For Biometric Liveness Detection

FaceTec is bringing attention to a biometric security issue that is too often overlooked – liveness detection. The face authentication leader has published a new white paper, entitled “Liveness Detection: Biometric Frontline or Final Frontier?“, that lays out the importance of getting certified liveness detection technology right in today’s current digital landscape. FaceTec should know. With…

Year in Review: The Industry Speaks, pt. 2

Posted on February 13, 2019

The 2018 FindBiometrics Year in Review survey and analysis is complete. Through our month-long analysis of the survey results via featured articles, interviews and the inaugural Mobile ID World podcast, the stage has been set for 2019 in terms of what trends we can expect to carry though the coming months. But the festivities aren’t…

Year in Review: The Industry Speaks, pt.1

Posted on February 6, 2019

The 2018 FindBiometrics Year in Review survey and analysis is complete. Through our month long analysis of the survey results – via featured articles, interviews and the inaugural Mobile ID World podcast – the stage has been set for 2019 in terms of what trends we can expect to carry though the coming months. But…

FaceTec Reaches a New Level in iBeta Spoofing Evaluation

“FaceTec says that, all told, its Level-1 and Level-2 PAD testing involved over 3,300 spoofing attempts over a period of 12 days.” FaceTec has done it again. The company announced that it has now become the first and only company to attain Level-2 certification in the iBeta Presentation Attack Detection evaluation. The news comes after…

IntelliVision Brings Liveness Detection to Facial Recognition Solution

Posted on January 31, 2019

“Liveness detection is an area of intensifying focus for many companies in the biometrics industry as concern over presentation attacks – or ‘spoofing’ – continues to grow.” IntelliVision has taken an important step forward in enhancing the security of its facial recognition technology, announcing that it has now integrated liveness detection in its solution. In…

The 2018 FindBiometrics Year in Review

Posted on January 31, 2019

Welcome to the 2018 FindBiometrics Year in Review. In December 2018 we polled nearly 200 biometrics industry experts on the biggest identity tech trends of the year, and throughout January we explored the results in our featured articles section. From the rise of facial recognition and the excitement of biometric FinTech, to the importance of…

Year in Review: ‘Frictionless’ is the New F-word

Posted on January 28, 2019

One of the clearest trends at last autumn’s Money20/20 event in Las Vegas was the emergence of a popular new buzzword: “Frictionless”. As one of the event’s participants quipped, friction is the new F-word, and while that may be especially true in the financial services sector, it’s a sentiment that is spreading rapidly across a…

User Enthusiasm Propels Expansion of Fingopay Biometric Payments Solution at Copenhagen Business School

Posted on December 11, 2018

“We are excited to be working with an industry leader such as Dankort, and extending the reach of finger vein technology in payments. The Nordic region is leading the charge towards a cashless future and is very receptive to innovative ideas. We have been working closely with the Nets Smart Payment team along with Dankort…

Can Biometrics Address the UK’s Youth Gambling Problem?

Posted on November 28, 2018

“By implementing a system like Jumio’s which combines document reading with facial recognition, regulators can enable online betting operators to take advantage of readily available technology – ie. smartphones – to confirm the identities and ages of their patrons.” In the wake of a scandalous new report on youth gambling in the UK, Jumio is…

SmartMetric Adds Liveness Detection to Biometric Card Solution

Posted on November 23, 2018

SmartMetric has announced an important technological enhancement of its biometric card technology: Its fingerprint scanning system now features liveness detection. In announcing the development, SmartMetric did not outline the mechanism underlying its new liveness detection system, saying only that its card solution now has “additional sensing functions that are used to validate the liveness of…

[Money20/20] Jumio Embraces FaceTec’s ZoOm to Enhance Netverify Anti-Spoofing

Posted on October 22, 2018

A major new industry partnership is combining a leader of the booming selfie authentication trend with one of the biometrics industry’s most effective anti-spoofing technologies. The Jumio–FaceTec alliance was announced at this week’s Money20/20 event in Las Vegas, with the companies revealing that Jumio has integrated FaceTec’s ZoOm 3D Face Liveness Detection system into its…

INTERVIEW: Konstantin Simonchik, Chief Science Officer, ID R&D

FindBiometrics President Peter O’Neill recently spoke with Konstantin Simonchik, Chief Science Officer, ID R&D. The interview begins with some background on the biometrics company, which focuses largely on voice, speech, and behavioral recognition technology. The conversation moves to the various drivers causing the current boom in voice and speech recognition, and Simonchik further elaborates on…

FaceTec’s ZoOm is First to Get iBeta PAD Certification with 100% Resistance to Spoofing in Level 1 Test

“Though negative results are not published, we believe most of our competitors have attempted similar PAD testing and failed, so achieving the first and only Level 1 certification is truly a milestone in the biometrics industry.” – Kevin Alan Tussy, CEO, FaceTec FaceTec‘s ZoOm 3D Face Login system has become the first biometric technology to attain…

Iris Research Brings New Meaning to ‘Liveness Detection’

“They trained their deep learning system on a database of 574 near-infrared post-mortem images, as well as a database of 256 images of irises from live subjects…” Polish researchers are working on technology that can prevent fraudsters from using the iris biometrics of dead people. The researchers, Mateusz Trokielewicz, Adam Czajka, and Piotr Maciejewicz, have published…

BRIEF: A Big Week In Mobile Biometrics

Posted on May 31, 2018

It has been a particularly busy week for mobile biometrics, with industry news running the gamut from security fiascos to pioneering innovations. In some ways, the week has marked the culmination of some of the biggest trends that have been underway over the past year – the rise of facial recognition, the ongoing proliferation of…

iBeta Adds Anti-Spoofing Evaluations to Quality Assurance Testing

Posted on April 19, 2018

“As biometric security has become more commonplace through consumer devices like fingerprint scanning smartphones, concerns about spoofing attacks have been on the rise” Denver-based quality assurance lab iBeta has officially expanded its biometric security testing capabilities to assess resistance to spoofing attempts. Or, to put it in more technical terms, the lab will now assess…

BioID Uses Liveness Detection To Create Spoof Proof Biometric Security

Posted on February 1, 2018

Facial recognition biometrics is one of the more controversial biometric technologies thanks to popular fears of one’s face being used against them. BioID is facing these fears head-on with a new liveness detection feature. The cloud biometrics developer announced a new liveness detection feature to be integrated in the the BioID Web Services (BWS) with…