Biometrics

By deploying voice biometrics, organizations including large banks, government agencies, telcos and retailers can not only make the process of authentication easier, but also can protect their customers’ identities from being compromised in the case of a hack, writes Brett Beranek, director of product strategy at Nuance.

Visa research contends consumers are interested in biometrics and consider it superior to traditional usernames and passwords.

Discover cardholders and Discover Bank members who own an iPhone X can now use Face ID biometrics to sign onto the Discover mobile app.

As the reigning technology giants demand consumers do everything through voice-controlled smart speakers, they may inadvertently succeed where smartphone-based wallets stalled.

The biometric data, broken up into shares, is persisted separately in off-chain storage that can be controlled and sealed via blockchain references for integrity and provenance, writes James Stickland, CEO of Veridium.

Palm scanners for employee log-ins has not only increased data security, but it's also cut down the time employees were spending on authentication procedures.

Diebold Nixdorf is a well-known provider of ATMs, but in an increasingly cashless economy it needs to apply its expertise in new ways.

Airport security is coming to the sports stadium through a program initiated by Idemia, formerly known as OT-Morpho.

As Internet of Things solutions become more commonplace in the home, the office and the car, voice interaction is the most likely channel for the next generation of commerce.

The Sonic breach coupled with the tsunami of recent breaches might just be the game changers that lead U.S. federal authorities to better protect the data collection, processing and storage of customer data, writes Robert W. Capps, vice president of business development for NuData Security.

There is a greater likelihood of an individual clicking on a piece of malware via a mobile device than a laptop, and this, in turn, provides issues for the amount of single sign on applications, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success at NuData Security.

Until recently, many of the fraud prevention tactics employed by organizations have added to, not reduced, customer friction across the buying cycle, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.

Apple's Face ID is turning heads, but it is far from the first use of facial biometrics in payments. Here are several implementations that predate it.

The best solution to the current broken identity system is to flip the authentication process from third parties to the users themselves.

Apple's upcoming iPhone X will ditch its fingerprint sensor in favor of a multi-camera system, but it still expects some users to opt for a PIN code.

It's not just Equifax that needs to worry. The incident can and should be a turning point for the financial services industry, a warning that it needs to end its reliance on static personal identifiers.

Apple's next iPhone could add — and lose — features that change the way people handle mobile payments. Here is the latest roundup of rumors and predictions.

Consumers who either are tiring of the password overload, or those who understand that passwords are antiquated security, are driving the fair amount of biometric adoption, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.

Passwords are widely distrusted for verifying identity and have been blamed for more than 80% of data breaches, but with biometrics and other approaches not yet ready for broad adoption, many innovators are rushing in to fill the gap.

With this year's iPhone announcement getting closer, more rumors are spreading about how Apple plans to overhaul the way its phones handle payments. Some of these have already been confirmed by Apple; others are leaking in code the company has released.