Aware Inc. Takes the Spotlight in This Week’s Top Stories

This week’s roundup of FindBiometrics’ most popular articles finds one standout topic in the form of a company: Aware, Inc.

Aware is, of course, a leading provider of biometric authentication solutions, including its mobile-focused Knomi SDK package. The company has lately seen some important changes to its executive team, including the appointment of a new Chief Technology Officer:

Aware Announces Mohamed Lazzouni as CTO

… and, before that, the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer, who delved into his experience as the former head of MorphoTrust USA, among other things, in a new interview with FindBiometrics President Peter O’Neill:

INTERVIEW: Bob Eckel, Former MorphoTrust USA Head and Aware’s New CEO

Meanwhile, facial recognition got a lot of reader attention through FindBiometrics’ recent in-depth feature for Face Biometrics Month, which looked at how facial recognition became a mainstream technology over the last few years:

Face Biometrics Month: The Apple Effect and the Mainstreaming of Face Authentication

Behavioral biometrics was another modality that was in the news this week, with readers proving interested in Temenos’ integration of HID Global technology into its Temenos Infinity and Temenos T24 Transact banking platforms. The integration means that financial services clients can take advantage of behavioral biometrics and risk analytics to flag potential fraud online:

Temenos Integrates HID Global’s Behavioral Biometrics Tech

Finally, this week brought news of yet another lawsuit filed under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, this time against Amazon Web Services:

BIPA Suit Filed Against Amazon Web Services

Stay posted to FindBiometrics next week as we continue to bring you the latest news and interviews from the exciting world of biometrics. To see the hottest stories of the week in mobile digital identity, visit our sibling site Mobile ID World.

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