COVID-19

Articles tagged with COVID-19

Behavioral Biometrics Specialist Wins Canadian Government Contract

Behavioral Biometrics Specialist BioCatch Raises $145M in Series C Funding

Behavioral biometrics specialist BioCatch has secured $145 million in funding through a Series C investment round, the company has announced. The round…

April 15, 2020

Global Biometric Payment Users to Reach 3.5B by 2030, Market to Hit $11.3B

IDNow Reports Changing Authentication Patterns During COVID-19 Crisis

IDNow has shared some statistics that reflect the behavioral changes people have made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To that end, the…

April 14, 2020

Blurams Pitches Biometric Surveillance Solution for People Stuck at Home

Blurams is pitching its Outdoor Pro surveillance cameras to people who are worried about security during the COVID-19 pandemic. The cameras boast facial…

April 14, 2020

ZKTeco Adds Body Temperature Screening, Mask Detection to Security Solutions

Security and access control management company ZKTeco has announced that some of its access control readers, IP surveillance cameras and walk-through metal…

April 14, 2020

InfoMart Offers Biometric Background Screening for Free During COVID-19

Atlanta-based biometric identity verification service InfoMart has announced it will be offering its ASAP ID application for free to essential services in…

April 14, 2020

BioCatch Warns About COVID-19 Social Engineering Attacks

BioCatch has released a lengthy primer that details some of the social engineering attacks that people may encounter during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company…

April 13, 2020

British Scooter Service Adopts Onfido ID Reading, with Plans for Biometrics

Onfido to Delve Into Hacking, Fraud Risks of COVID-19

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continually reinforcing a trend toward remote work, and prompting various organizations to seek immediate support in the…

April 13, 2020

BIO-key Forms PortalGuard Distribution Agreement With Darksteel Technologies

COVID-19 Pushes ISC West Back to October

The COVID-19 pandemic has once again pushed back the dates for one of the security industry’s biggest annual events: organizers have announced that ISC West…

April 13, 2020

Hytera Pushes Remote Temperature Detection to Combat COVID-19

Hytera has become the latest biometrics specialist to advocate for contactless body temperature detection as an effective way to slow the spread of the novel…

April 13, 2020

Onfido Offers Six Months’ Free Use of Biometric Identity Solution for Nonprofits Fighting COVID-19

Onfido is offering a helping hand to organizations involved in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The company is offering its selfie-based identity solution to…

April 9, 2020

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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. www.the-prism-project.com