Biometric Software Month – Week 1: The Primer

May is Biometric Software Month at findBIOMETRICS and to kick things off we are going to take you through a crash course on the topic.

Biometric Software can come in a number of forms: identity management software that eases the administrative process, software development kits that can turn basic hardware into biometric sensors, even software based upgrades to sensors that can help protect against spoofing attempts.

Let’s take a look at the rich topics of discussion this area of biometrics holds.

The Freedom of Mobility

Biometric software is not confined to mobile devices, but thanks to housing cameras, motion sensors and microphones they are a perfect example of how a downloadable solution can transform an ordinary PIN protected gadget into a strong authentication powerhouse.

The following links each give an example of biometric software on a mobile device enabling a different biometric authentication factor:

Voice – Anti-Spoofing is a Key Feature in AGNITiO’s New KIVOX 4.1

Eyeprint – VIDEO: Toby Rush Demonstrates EyeVerify on a Smartphone

Face – Morpho Presents 3DBioSecure mCommerce Face Recogntion Solution

Fingerprint – Diamond Fortress Technology Introduces Contactless Fingerprint Biometric SDK

Marketing

A special application that is emerging in biometric software, particularly in regards to facial recognition, is targeted advertising. With the application of biometric software and a simple camera, companies can understand their demographics better while digital signage can change on the fly to appeal more to passersby.

NIST Praises Cognitec Face Recognition Algorithm

Mobile Money Set To Change Marketing

A Helping Hand

There are software solutions that can help manage biometric templates, strengthen matching algorithms and even bolster liveness detection.

The following links illustrate how software can lend a helping hand in deployments

NexID Biometrics Wins Grants, Further Commits to Liveness Detection

Breaking Adoption Barriers: EnterTech Systems Launches BioConnect 2.5

What We Talk About When We Talk About Biometric Software

Nothing can better demonstrate how ripe a topic is for discussion than actual conversations. The following interviews are with CEOs and researchers on the topic of biometric software.

Aware Introduces The New Nexa Family of Biometric SDKs – Interview With David Benini, VP Marketing, Aware, Inc.

Interview With Alexey Khitrov, President, Speechpro

Peter O’Neill of findBIOMETRICS interviews Toby Rush, CEO, EyeVerify

Fulfilling The Mobile Promise – Interview With Brett Beranek, Solutions Marketing Manager, Enterprise Division at Nuance Communications

Stay posted to findBIOMETRICS all through May as we take a closer look at biometric software, with feature articles posted every Wednesday and on-them blog posts every Friday. Don’t forget to keep the conversation going by following us on Twitter and tweeting using the hashtag #fBSoftwareMonth.

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May 7, 2014 – by Peter B. Counter

Partners

FaceTec’s patented, industry-leading 3D Face Verification and Reverification software anchors digital identity, creating a chain of trust from user onboarding to ongoing authentication on all modern smart devices and webcams. FaceTec’s 3D FaceMaps™ finally make trusted, remote identity verification possible. As the only technology backed by a persistent spoof bounty program and NIST/iBeta Certified Liveness Detection, FaceTec is the global standard for 3D Liveness and Face Matching with millions of users on six continents in financial services, border security, transportation, blockchain, e-voting, social networks, online dating and more. www.facetec.com

AuthenticID provides 100% automated identity verification and fraud detection solutions that are leveraged by companies worldwide, including 2 of the top 3 U.S. Banks, 8 out the top 10 wireless providers in North America, and 2 of the 3 credit bureaus. Using proprietary computer vision and machine learning technology, these solutions help companies accurately verify the identity of their users across retail, digital and call center environments for onboarding and ongoing re-authentication events; KYC, IAM, and more. The solutions are easy to integrate and provide customers a large ROI by stopping fraud losses, increasing customer conversion at onboarding, reducing operational costs and allowing quick and cost-effective operational scalability, all while ensuring global privacy regulations are complied with. https://www.authenticid.com/

Anonybit is a privacy-focused technology platform that provides decentralized solutions for securing personal data, particularly biometric information. Rather than storing sensitive data in centralized repositories, which are vulnerable to breaches, Anonybit uses a distributed architecture that breaks data into smaller encrypted bits and stores them across a network of decentralized nodes. This approach ensures that no single entity has access to the full dataset, enhancing privacy and security, even preventing insider threats. Anonybit is used by leading banks, fintechs and other enterprises for critical biometric identity functions like deduplication and blocklist checks, step up authentication, passwordless login and account recovery https://anonybit.io/

Identity Week aims to be a significant identity industry catalyst. It’s our mission is to help accelerate the move towards a world where trusted identity solutions enable governments and commercial organisations to provide citizens, employees, customers and consumers with a multitude of opportunities to transact in a seamless, yet secure manner. All the while preventing the efforts of those intent on doing harm. https://identityweek.net/

The Biometric Digital Identity Prism is a market landscape framework designed to help influencers and decision makers understand, innovate, and implement digital identity technologies and solutions. This innovative framework for understanding and evaluating the rapidly evolving biometric digital identity marketplace is the only market model that is truly biometric-centric based on the foundational conviction that in the age of digital transformation the only true, reliable link between humans and their digital data is biometrics. https://www.the-prism-project.com

ID R&D is an innovator of biometric facial liveness, document liveness, and voice biometrics. Ranked #1 by NIST, our patented passive approach to liveness, and specialized detection of voice clones, injection attacks and deepfakes, empowers KYC and authentication systems with fast, accurate and secure biometric verification technologies. Over 140 partners in more than 70 countries are collectively processing hundreds of millions of identity checks per year. ID R&D solutions easily integrate with mobile, web, messaging, smart speakers, set-top boxes, and IoT devices. Learn more: www.idrnd.ai

The Freedom of Mobility

Marketing

A Helping Hand

What We Talk About When We Talk About Biometric Software

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