Written by Caitlin Newark, Novetta Solutions Novel biometric technologies are receiving an increasing amount of public attention and news coverage, particularly given the strong uptick in diverse mobile and wearable biometric applications. At a glance, media reporting can often be overly generous with respect to the capabilities offered by these technologies. In February, for example,
To call the smartphone a revolutionary device is nearly an understatement. The ability to access the Internet from nearly anywhere you happen to be is more than a simple end user convenience, it is a paradigm of thinking that affects web design, finance, marketing, healthcare, active living, digital identity and even how we interact with
By Caitlin Newark, Novetta Nexus The degree of interest in applications involving “cognitive fingerprints” has taken off in recent years, spearheaded in large part by government-sponsored research initiatives such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Active Authentication program, which has facilitated the exploration of numerous novel, multimodal behavioral and cognitive biometric authentication systems by