Jeff Maynard CEO of Biometric Signature ID Participates at IDESG Conference for Online Privacy
Jeff Maynard CEO of Biometric Signature ID Participates at IDESG Conference for Online Privacy Dallas May 10, 2013. Biometric Signature ID (BSI) CEO Jeff Maynard attended the Identity Ecosystem Steering Committee Group (IDESG) meeting this week to take part in discussions about online privacy and its continuous importance in cyberspace. The meeting held in Santa Clara CA, attracted key decision makers and subject matter experts from around the country. The meeting focused on some of the major hurdles facing companies dealing with authentication of online identities, security and privacy. In conjunction with the meeting the five groups from the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) presented on their progress towards securing online transactions using their trusted frameworks. Biometric Signature ID technology using gesture biometrics was chosen as one of these NSTIC groups with its partners, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), Microsoft, CA, AT&T and Virginia’s DMV. The NSTIC groups were all ...
of Community Colleges Online to Address the Use of Biometrics for Online Student ID Verification at Pearson’s CITE Conference
Press Release: Biometric Signature ID and the Iowa Consortium of Community Colleges Online to Address the Use of Biometrics for Online Student ID Verification at Pearson’s CITE Conference April 1, 2013 Dallas, TX, April 1, 2013--(PR.com)— Ann M. Jenkins, Instructional Designer, ICCOC, a consortium of 7 colleges in Iowa, and Jeff Maynard, CEO of Biometric Signature ID, (BSI), are scheduled to co-present at the upcoming Pearson CITE Symposium on Online Learning Emerging. The presentation will highlight the cost savings and long-term benefits from ICCOC’s use of BSI’s patented BioSig-ID™ biometric technology for student identity proofing. Instructors saved up to 20 hours per semester by switching from proctoring to BioSig-ID and found no differences in student grades. Jenkins and Maynard will be sharing the results of the ICCOC’s user experiences over the last year and how the new BioSig-ID audit trail was responsible for identifying suspicious student behaviors leading to cheating. ICCOC’s BioSig-ID Student ...
Two-Step Verification Will End Consensual Impersonation
A couple of months back, I advocated killing your password policies and applying some other techniques instead to make existing use of passwords more effective (including my hobby horse: take the user-experience sting out of rotating ordinary static passwords by pushing them out to users on an alternate channel, à la activation codes and other OTPs). But adding factors is still a great idea, and the barriers to doing so are falling fast. Read More
Biometric Signature ID Strikes Deal with Mohegan Biometrics LLC to Provide Online Identity Verification Solutions
This investment is consistent with the tribal Council’s strategy to diversify its revenue sources by pursuing other non-gaming investment opportunities. The Tribes’ Business Diversification Department identifies and evaluates various diversification opportunities in commercial enterprises and technologies such as BSI’s gesture biometrics. For full article click here.
Harvard Students Forced to Withdraw in Cheating Scandal
More than half of the students implicated in a Harvard University cheating scandal that involved about 125 undergraduates were told to withdraw for as long as a year. Full article click here.
Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore
Your email. Your bank account. Your address and credit card number. Photos of your kids or, worse, of yourself, naked. The precise location where you’re sitting right now as you read these words. Since the dawn of the information age, we’ve bought into the idea that a password, so long as it’s elaborate enough, is an adequate means of protecting all this precious data. But in 2012 that’s a fallacy, a fantasy, an outdated sales pitch. And anyone who still mouths it is a sucker—or someone who takes you for one. For full article click here.
Hunting Botnets In The Cloud
Combining cloud, crowdsourcing, and big data to find and quash botnets on a larger scale. Comparing botnet command-and-control (C&C) traffic or malware within an organization to activity seen in other parts of the Internet isn't new. It's just that some security analysts are increasingly going there to gather better intelligence that they can use to quell an infection or help take down a botnet. For full article click here.
4 Long-Term Hacks That Rocked 2012
News of lengthy hacker incursions into enterprise databases and networks has been plentiful over the last year -- here's a highlight reel. So far, 2012 has been the year for skeletons falling out of the IT security closet. The headlines have been hopping with stories of companies whose networks and databases were thoroughly owned by hackers for months and years at a time, often undetected until government agents came to let them know they'd been compromised and had been for a while. Many organizations go to great lengths to keep news of these kinds of breaches under wraps if no regulated PII is stolen, but this year many haven't kept the light of day from shining on their deep, dark security inadequacies. Dark Reading took a look at some of the most impactful long-term compromises brought to light in the past year and what these events mean to security pros. For full ...
Cellphone Theft Becomes Modern-Day Purse Snatching
San Francisco - In this tech-savvy city teeming with commuters and tourists, the cell phone has become a top target of robbers who use stealth, force and sometimes guns. For full article click here.
Biometric Signature ID (BSI) Selected to Present at WBT Innovative Marketplace in San Diego
BSI among 130 companies and technologies seeking capital, acquisition or licensing partners during WBT 2012 San Diego, CA – October 22, 2012– Biometric Signature ID (BSI), a unique gesture biometric software company, announced today it has been selected to be a presenter at the tenth annual WBT Innovation Marketplace presented by Northrup Grumman taking place October 24 – 26, 2012 at the San Diego Convention Center. BSI is among 130 companies and technology innovators from across the globe that was individually chosen by the WBT Selection Committee to present during WBT 2012. BSI will speak about its gesture biometric software, and discuss future plans for its proprietary technology to some of the country's leading venture capital firms, Fortune 1000 corporate licensees, federal agency representatives and university technology transfer managers. BSI has patented a software only biometric, the strongest form of identity verification on the market today with a twist: no additional hardware ...
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Jeff Maynard CEO of Biometric Signature ID Participates at IDESG Conference for Online Privacy
05/10/2013
Jeff Maynard CEO of Biometric Signature ID Participates at IDESG Conference for Online Privacy Dallas May 10, 2013. Biometric Signature ID (BSI) CEO Jeff Maynard attended the Identity Ecosystem Steering Committee Group (IDESG) meeting this week to take part in discussions about online privacy and its continuous importance in cyberspace. The meeting held in Santa [...]
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NSTIC-led ID plan earmarks $4 million to secure state government services
04/03/2013
The two-year-old initiative to create an identity layer for the internet is backing a set of projects aimed at creating identity-based security to support state and local government services online. Read More
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Gesture Recognition & Touch-less Sensing Market Worth $12.21 Billion by 2018
04/03/2013
According to a new market research report Gesture Recognition & Touchless Sensing Market (2013 – 2018): By Technology (RFID, IR, Capacitive); Product (Biometric, Gaming, Smartphone); Application (Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, Automotive); Geography (Americas, EMEA, & APAC), the total touchless sensing and gesture recognition market is expected to reach $15.02 billion by 2018 growing at a CAGR of 34.94% from 2013 to 2018. [...]
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Two-Step Verification Will End Consensual Impersonation
04/03/2013
A couple of months back, I advocated killing your password policies and applying some other techniques instead to make existing use of passwords more effective (including my hobby horse: take the user-experience sting out of rotating ordinary static passwords by pushing them out to users on an alternate channel, à la activation codes and other [...]
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Click and Go Vote: PA politician proposes online registration
04/03/2013
HARRISBURG — It’s possible in these days of instant connectivity to monitor nearly every financial, physical and social transaction using the Internet – from banking to travel, and from dieting to dinner reservations. Read More
