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A recent survey found that password-based authentication is no longer capable of meeting the demands of modern information security, and that 84% of respondents would support eliminating passwords all together.
 

First Tech Federal Credit Union announced a pilot program with MasterCard that will enable First Tech employees to authenticate and verify transactions using facial recognition and fingerprint biometrics. 

A new technique created at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may provide information about when a person and their fingerprints were at a particular location.
 

Alaska Airlines just completed a test program that allowed passengers to use their fingerprints instead of government-issued IDs and boarding passes.
 

Not surprisingly, radio frequency identification (RFID) and that technology’s “little sister” real-time location systems (RTLS) seem to be everywhere doing just about everything. Many times, solutions blend together security and operations at myriad enterprises, organizations and agencies. And, ironically, some of the most cutting edge applications are geographically far flung in areas where it makes business sense to leap-frog at times nonexistent legacy technologies.

Congress has approved the creation of a veterans' identification card.

More than a third (38%) of Americans believe biometrics will increase their smartphone security, while 25% are skeptical and 37% don’t know.
 

Businesses and government agencies see value in using temporary workers, contractors and subcontractors. Nothing could go wrong. Right?

Wrong. Things could go very, very wrong.

Though fingerprints are assumed to be infallible personal identifiers, there has been little scientific research to prove this claim to be true.

The U.S. mobile worker population will grow at a steady rate over the next five years, increasing from 96.2 million in 2015 to 105.4 million mobile workers in 2020.