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Cloud communications platform company Parateum has announced a partnership with global messaging app Viber to provide API-driven multi-factor authentication to secure the end user experience with its Parateum Experience Cloud platform. Viber is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Rakuten, a digital services brand, and with over one billion users, it’s one of the most popular messaging […]
The University of Memphis Research Foundation (UMRF) has announced they have licensed their patented multi-factor authentication (MFA) system to i2Chain, a Silicon Valley cybersecurity startup. While most MFA methods require the user to provide at least two differing elements to verify their identity — often a combination of a PIN, password, smart card, or biometrics […]
FindBiometrics President Peter O’Neill recently spoke with Will Summerlin, Founder and CEO, Pinn. The interview begins with an overview of the company’s background, as well as the authentication challenges it was founded to address, and Summerlin provides some insight into the company’s security offerings. The conversation shifts to talk of the rise in behavioral biometrics, their […]
Aware, Inc. has issued its Q4 and 2017 year-end results. Revenues for the quarter were down, coming in at $3.3 million compared to $3.9 million in Q4 of 2016. For the full year, revenues totaled $16.3 million, compared to revenues of $21.6 million for the previous year. Similar trends were seen in net income: While […]
Aware, Inc. is illustrating the benefits of its Knomi mobile biometric authentication platform – literally. The company has just released a new, animated video that shows how Knomi can make life easier on a day-to-day basis for end users: The video starts things off by showing how Knomi can enable biometric facial recognition on a […]
“The platform already supported push-based one time passwords and biometrics; now, such tools have been augmented with support for email as a second factor of authentication.” Online identity management solutions provider Okta has announced new tools for developers aimed at helping to make their software more secure. Developers can implement IP blacklisting to keep end […]
“[Bio-Metrica is] going to provide handheld devices that can collect citizens’ fingerprint and facial biometrics, and its CRS is going to be used to manage that data.” Authorities in Nigeria are planning to employ biometrics in a nationwide census, and Bio-Metrica is providing the technology platform, the company has announced. The country’s National Population Commission […]
Uniken will demonstrate its REL-ID digital security solution at this year’s Money20/20 conference, the company has announced. In a statement announcing its participation, the company explained its platform as a “patented security protocol that binds identity and channel to ensure that user, application, and device posture and identity are verified before access to applications is granted.” […]
CU Wallet, a Los Angeles-based consortium offering digital money services to over 100 regional and community financial institutions, has selected AnchorID to provide the multi-factor authentication capabilities of its platform. AnchorID says its solution is able to leverage a wide range of authentication factors, with biometrics including voice, iris, hand, ear, gait, and even ear recognition. […]
Nok Nok Labs is weighing in on the security of facial recognition authentication systems in the wake of recent spoofing claims from a team of University of North Carolina researchers. Using images collected from social media, the researchers developed 3D face models that could then be used for authentication, succeeding in their spoofing attempts with […]
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