The ID Talk Podcast

Welcome to the first part of our State of Enterprise Biometrics event, presented in association with our premier security partner ISC West. ISC West has been postponed due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, but the converged security conversation is more critical than ever. That’s why we are bringing the enterprise biometrics conversation online, with longform expert interviews, an extended podcast panel, and this latest event: the state of the industry survey. Readers of FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World know that our live conference coverage is punctuated by show floor interviews. And in lieu of a show floor, we reached out to identity tech companies remotely to ask them one key question: “What is the biggest identity and authentication issue in the modern enterprise?” In part one of this virtual show floor event, you will hear answers from Innovatrics, CrucialTrak, and CyberLink.

On this latest episode of ID Talk we are digging into the topic of behavioral biometrics and analytics with Ayelet Biger-Levin, Vice President of Marketing for BioCatch. In conversation with Susan Stover, VP of Digital Content for FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World, Biger-Levin sheds light on the demand for new approaches to fraud detection, and why organizations ought to consider adopting advanced behavioral biometrics. The discussion turns to the threat of social engineering scams, and how behavioral technologies can thwart them, before diving into some of the more popular use cases for the modality. The interview concludes with insight into why behavioral biometrics are gaining popularity, as demonstrated in the results of the 17th annual FindBiometrics Year in Review. For more information on the technology discussed in the episode, please visit https://www.biocatch.com/, or reach out via email to [email protected]

ID Talk and ISC West present a special virtual panel on the topic of biometric security in the enterprise. Moderated by Susan Stover, VP of digital content for FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World, the panel brings together leading industry experts: -Rob Douglas, Founder, Chairman & CEO, BioConnect -Maxine Most, Principal, Acuity Market Intelligence -Gary Jones, VP Global Channel & Marketing, IDEMIA -Joey Pritikin, Chief Product Officer, Paravision The hour-long panel talks about biometrics in the converged identity landscape, the experience of biometrics in the evolving enterprise, security and scalability in biometric systems, and the ongoing privacy issues facing the biometrics industry. The discussion, of course, touches on the role of security during the pandemic crisis facing the world, and looks to the future of biometrics in the workplace. Stay up to date on all the biometrics and converged security news you need by keeping posted to https://findbiometrics.com/ and our partner’s site https://www.iscsecuritynews.com/

FindBiometrics is currently celebrating Enterprise Biometrics Month, presented in partnership with ISC West. Due to concerns over the COVID-19 Coronavirus, ISC West has been postponed, and will be taking place July 20th to 22nd. In the meantime, we are keeping the converged security conversation virtual here at ID Talk, interviewing leaders in enterprise biometrics, and later this month presenting a podcast version of our panel: Understanding Security, Convenience and Privacy in Today’s Biometric Systems, which was originally scheduled for the conference. Today, we set the stage for that podcast panel by once again welcoming BioConnect’s Founder, CEO, and Chairman Rob Douglas, with BioConnect's CTO and CISO Courtney Gibson, to ID Talk. In conversation with ID Talk co-host Susan Stover, Douglas and Gibson shed light on the approximate identity crisis facing enterprises that rely solely on key fobs and key cards for access control, delving into an experiment they conducted on an automated key-copying kiosk. The conversation turns to the ins-and-outs of BioConnect’s Unified Mobile Access Solution. The interview concludes with a preview of our ISC West virtual panel, as well as a virtual trade show event BioConnect is holding in lieu of the Vegas conference. Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode at: https://bioconnect.com/unified-find-biometrics/

**This ID Talk Update is a mini-episode that can work as either a followup or introduction to the recent full length episode, "HID’s Jeff Carpenter on How Biometrics Can Transform Healthcare for the Better". Listen to it here: https://soundcloud.com/user-174739678/hid-global-healthcare-0302 ** FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World recently placed a major focus on strong identity technologies in healthcare applications. That, once again, is the topic of this ID Talk mini-episode, which is a follow up to our recent conversation with HID’s Jeff Carpenter, on how biometrics change healthcare spaces for the better. In this episode, ID Talk host Peter Counter is joined by Sheila Loy, Director of Healthcare Segment Strategies at HID Global. They talk about how patients use biometrics for authentication at clinics, and the challenges of electronic health records in the era of the data breach, before exploring some of the ways HID Global is serving healthcare professionals like doctors, clinicians and lab workers when it comes to authentication. Learn more about the topics discussed in this podcast by visiting https://www.hidglobal.com/

FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World are concluding the 17th annual year in review industry event. The Year in Review has a reputation for setting the bar for biometrics industry discourse of the subsequent twelve months, and this year we have been looking back on the major milestones of the past decade in identity and biometrics with industry leaders. That’s why on this latest episode of ID talk we are pleased to welcome Gary Jones, IDEMIA’s Vice President of Global Channel & Marketing for Biometric Access & Time Solutions. FindBiometrics readers will no doubt recognize Gary as a participant of our expert webinars and conference panels, and in this episode he and ID Talk host Peter Counter take a deep dive on the topics of biometric access and security as it’s evolved over the past ten years, and where the industry is heading. The conversation digs into some of the FindBiometrics Year in Review results, too, talking about frictionless biometrics, face recognition, and public education The episode concludes with a preview of what IDEMIA has in store for 2020. Learn more about the topics discussed here by visiting https://www.idemia.com/

FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World have spent the recent weeks focusing on new identity technologies in healthcare, and how biometrics can enhance patient ID, electronic health records, and even diagnosis. Here on ID Talk we are continuing that healthcare biometrics conversation, and that’s why on our latest episode we are happy to welcome Jeff Carpenter, Product Marketing Director of Cloud Authentication in IAM solutions at HID Global. In his conversation with ID Talk host Peter Counter, Carpenter starts off by helping us get to know the daily identity interactions of healthcare professionals, and the different ways biometrics can make their lives easier. The conversation shifts to the fascinating topic of visitor management in hospitals, and how biometrics can be used to facilitate a secure and convenient user experience while also protecting data. And of course, Carpenter and Counter talk about patients too, in context to a discussion of ePrescription and identity in the age of the opioid crisis. To learn more about the topics discussed in this episode, please visit: https://www.hidglobal.com/

UPDATED: FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World have spent the recent weeks focusing on new identity technologies in healthcare, and how biometrics can enhance patient ID, electronic health records, and even diagnosis. That focus on healthcare was in preparation for the 2020 HIMSS Conference in Orlando, which since the original publication of this podcast has been cancelled due to concerns around the COVID-19 Coronavirus. FindBiometrics was scheduled to host an expert fireside chat about mobile ID in the healthcare sector, moderated by FindBometrics President Peter O’Neill and featuring a special guest: Tim Brown, IDEMIA’s Senior Director of Technology and Chief Technologist for Digital Identity in North America. This episode was initially intended as a preview of that chat, but it can also be heard as a standalone episode about this fascinating intersection of identity and healthcare. ID Talk's interview with Tim Brown starts off with an introduction to IDEMIA’s mobile ID solution and the technology and standards that make it possible, before moving on to the specific ways it can be deployed in healthcare. He talks about patient ID, ePrescriptions, and telemedicine before speculating on the future of a mobile ID empowered healthcare landscape. It’s a fascinating conversation, and a great way to keep the healthcare ID discourse rolling in lieu of HIMSS. Learn more about the topics discussed in today's episode by visiting https://www.idemia.com/

FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World have placed a featured focus on the healthcare ID market over the past four weeks, delving into how strong authentication and ID verification can improve patient ID, electronic health records, and even diagnosis. Meanwhile here on ID Talk, we are interviewing the leaders in identity technology for healthcare. That’s why on this episode we are pleased to present John Ahrens, CEO of Veratad in conversation with Susan Stover, VP Digital Content, FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World. Their conversation begins on the topic of patient ID, and why it still poses a significant challenge to the healthcare industry. They go on to talk about the various use cases strong identity solutions can address in healthcare, and the considerations that need to be taken into account when protecting patient data, before turning to what healthcare facilities can do today to improve their identity ecosystems. Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode by visiting https://veratad.com/

FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World are concluding the 17th annual year in review industry event. The Year in Review has a reputation for setting the bar for the biometrics industry discourse of the subsequent twelve months, and this year we have been looking back on the major milestones of the past decade in biometrics with industry leaders. That’s why on this latest episode of ID Talk we are pleased to welcome Javier Mira, CEO of FacePhi. FacePhi is a biometric software solutions company, specializing in face-based authentication, that in recent years expanded into multimodal biometrics. The company saw great success in 2019, and that’s where this episode's conversation starts. After discussing FacePhi’s record-breaking year with ID Talk host Peter Counter, Mira spoke about the Latin American market, where the company has seen massive success, before turning to analyzing the Year in Review survey results around modalities, liveness detection and privacy. The discussion concludes with a preview of what’s next for FacePhi. Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode by visiting https://www.facephi.com/

ID Talk is in the midst of unpacking FindBiometrics' 17th annual Year in Review Survey. In celebration of a new decade in biometrics, we are interviewing identity industry leaders on ID Talk, discussing major milestones, trends and topics from biometrics throughout the past ten years. That’s why on this latest episode, we are pleased to welcome Matt Thompson, Senior Vice President, Civil Identity for North America at IDEMIA, in conversation with our host, Peter Counter. Thompson speaks about how attitudes towards identity have changed over the past ten years, paving the way for IDEMIA’s mobile identity technology. He and Counter go on to talk in depth about the functionality of the mobile ID and its successful deployments, as well as what the future of will look like once the problem of converged identity is solved. They conclude with some talk about the FindBiometrics Year in Review findings, speculating what markets might begin to play a bigger role in the evolution of identity technology as we move ahead. Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode by visiting http://www.idemia-mobile-id.com/

FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World are in the midst of unpacking the results of our 17th annual Year in Review survey. To celebrate this momentous event, ID Talk is featuring interviews with biometrics and identity industry leaders focusing on the major milestones from 2019 and the previous decade as a whole. That’s why we are pleased to bring you this conversation between FindBiometrics Editor in Chief Peter Counter and Dean Nicolls, Vice President of Global Marketing for Jumio. The discussion begins on a major topic of the past decade: the historic data breaches of the 2010s and how they empowered fraudsters. Counter and Nicolls jump from that to the important role AI and biometrics technologies play in keeping competitive with modern sophisticated fraudsters, before discussing how public perception of biometrics has changed in the age of regulation and mobility. Wrapping things up, they end with an update on Jumio GO, and look ahead with a preview of what to expect from the company in the near future. Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode by visiting http://jumio.com

In celebration of the 17th annual FindBiometrics Year in Review, throughout January the ID Talk Podcast is showcasing conversations with identity industry leaders. On this latest episode, we are excited to welcome Caryn Seidman-Becker, CEO of CLEAR, a leading biometrics company known best for its airport passenger screening deployments all across the USA. The discussion begins on the topic of the decade in biometric border control and the many obstacles CLEAR faced as it built up its impressive network. The interview then delves into the advent of smart stadiums, and how CLEAR’s expansion into events venue spaces offers unique opportunities for biometric access and commerce, including the sale of alcohol. The episode concludes with a preview of what’s next for CLEAR as we enter a new year and the company continues to strive for ubiquity. To enroll in CLEAR and learn more about the topics discussed in this episode, visit: http://clearme.com

FindBiometrics is celebrating its 17th annual Year in Review, so throughout January, on ID Talk we will be interviewing biometrics and identity industry leaders about the major milestones not just of the year, but also the previous decade. In this latest episode, FindBiometrics Vice President of Digital Content Susan Stover sat down with Mohammed Murad, Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development at Iris ID to get his views on the decade in biometrics. After reviewing major milestones from the past ten years, including insight into India’s monumental Aadhaar national ID program, Stover and Murad pivot to talk about the healthcare biometrics market, which has been heating up recently, with iris recognition offering solutions for medical record access, security in clinics and hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturing applications. Their conversation concludes with a look back on Iris ID’s 2019 highlights and a preview of what’s to come. To learn more about iris recognition and the topics discussed in this episode, visit: http://www.irisid.com

FindBiometrics is in the midst of celebrating its 17th annual Year in Review. That's why, throughout January on ID Talk, we will be interviewing biometrics and identity industry leaders about the major milestones not just of the year, but also the previous decade. On this latest episode of ID Talk, we welcome Jeff Brown, Vice President of Sales for SecuGen, a specialist and pioneer in optical fingerprint biometrics technology. Brown speaks to FindBiometrics Editor in Chief Peter Counter about how SecuGen has evolved over the past ten years, and the two go on to talk about the maturing of biometrics in general and major industry milestones that helped bring us to today. Brown and Counter discuss the fingerprint market in particular and how it changed in the wake of Apple’s historic Touch ID launch, before specifically delving into SecuGen’s 2019, which saw the company launch its first fully programmable bluetooth fingerprint reader and the world’s smallest programmable fingerprint module. We conclude with a preview of what’s next for SecuGen as we enter a new year. Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode by visiting http://secugen.com

Throughout January on ID Talk we will be interviewing biometrics and identity industry leaders about the major milestones not just of the year, but also the previous decade. That’s why in this latest episode we are excited to present an interview with a longtime leader in the biometrics and converged identity space: BioConnect – a provider of an enterprise biometric authentication and security platform that establishes stronger trust in verifying a person’s identity across physical, IoT and digital applications, protecting people, data and IP. FindBiometrics Vice President of Digital Content Susan Stover sat down with BioConnect Chairman, CEO and Founder Rob Douglas, and the company’s CTO and CISO Courtney Gibson, to talk about the state of authentication and security as we enter a new decade of identity. The discussion begins on the topic of major 2019 milestones for BioConnect, and the company’s pioneering successes in unifying the digital and physical person. The three delve into BioConnect’s unique ability to provide unified identity without the need for ripping and replacing older access systems, and they go on to discuss how the company fits in to the contemporary identity landscape as regulations come to what many once called “The Wild West.” Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode by visiting https://bioconnect.com

It's the dawn of 2020, and FindBiometrics is celebrating our 17th annual Year in Review. Throughout January, on ID Talk we will be interviewing biometrics and identity industry leaders about the major milestones, not just of the year, but also the previous decade. In this latest episode of ID Talk, we welcome back David Benini, Vice President of Marketing and Product at Aware. This time, FindBiometrics Vice President of Digital Content Susan Stover sat down with David to talk about biometric applications in the burgeoning smart automotive space, and the decade as a whole. In December, Aware released a white paper detailing the massive potential for biometrics in the automotive space, so this episode begins with discussion of the most exciting commercial applications of strong authentication in connected cars, and the special considerations around deploying biometrics in vehicles. The conversation turns to the decade in biometrics, and Benini lends his company’s historied expertise on the topic to talk about the biggest milestones of the 2010s. Their conversation concludes with a look ahead for Aware as we enter the next decade. To learn more about the topics discussed visit https://www.aware.com/ To read our latest Year in Review analysis visit https://findbiometrics.com/

On this episode of the ID Talk Podcast we welcome Yanik Brunet, Vice President of Sales for StoneLock, a specialist in enterprise-level facial recognition biometrics for identity management. Brunet has lived most of his life in the security industry, getting his start in a family business, so after providing his thoughts on the evolution of the security industry into the world of biometrics we know it as today, he and FindBiometrics EiC Peter Counter dig in to the controversy, challenges and opportunities surrounding the face biometrics space. Brunet and Counter go on to discuss practical matters too, including adoption obstacles, education, the importance of liveness detection and a realistic timeline for the mainstreaming of biometrics in access control. They conclude with a sneak peak of what StoneLock has in store for 2020 and the three words to keep in mind as the industry awaits its official announcement. To learn more about StoneLock and the topics discussed in this episode visit: https://stonelock.com/

Learn more about the topics discussed on this episode by visiting https://www.idexbiometrics.com/ For Biometric Smart Cards Month, Mobile ID World Editor in Chief Peter Counter speaks with David Orme, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for IDEX Biometrics, about the misconceptions around biometric payment cards. IDEX Biometrics is completely focused on developing useful, functional, and affordable biometric fingerprint sensors and solutions for smart cards, whether they be for use in the payments, access control, ID or healthcare verticals. They also integrate their technologies into IoT and access control devices. Counter and Orme start the episode on the topic of the technology: specifically the wide range of use cases for biometric cards, before focusing in on the value proposition in the payments sector. They go on to talk about the findings of a new report from IDEX Biometrics on the misconceptions about biometric cards, before looking ahead at what’s next for the company in an exciting preview of 2020 and beyond.

November is Face Biometrics Month at FindBiometrics – a four week event in which we are delving into the history, the technology, the promise and the controversy around facial recognition in identification and authentication scenarios. On this episode we welcome Paravision to ID Talk. Formerly Ever AI, Paravision provides advanced computer vision technology to empower a wide range of mission critical applications. Susan Stover, FindBiometrics’ VP of Digital Content sat down for an in-depth conversation with Paravision’s CEO Doug Aley and the company’s newly appointed Chief Product Officer Joey Pritikin. Their conversation begins with an introduction to Paravision, going on to talk in detail about how AI and Deep Learning technologies have affected face biometrics in recent times and the evolution of biometrics in the past five years. After touching on liveness detection and the contactless biometrics experience, Stover, Aley and Pritikin delve into the current controversy around some public facing deployments of facial recognition and offer guidance for an industry currently tasked with walking some delicate ethical lines. Learn more about Paravision by visiting https://paravision.ai/ Read more about face biometrics by visiting https://FindBiometrics.com

On this episode of the ID Talk Podcast, Peter Counter, Editor in Chief at FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World, speaks with Benji Hutchinson, Vice President of Federal Operations, Advanced Recognition Systems Division, NEC Corporation of America. To start off, the two discuss the many vertical markets included under the umbrella of "government biometrics" before delving deep into the world of border control – specifically the US biometric entry/exit mandate NEC is heavily involved with. That topic, of course, segues very well into the ongoing privacy debate around the use of facial recognition by border control and law enforcement. Hutchinson and Counter talk about misconceptions around face biometrics, the conflation of identification and authentication, and NEC’s stance on the state of the technology. The podcast finishes by discussing the status of the large American biometric databases, IDENT and HART, and what’s next NEC Corporation of America. This episode of the ID Talk Podcast is part of Government Biometrics Month. To learn more, read the latest featured articles at https://findbiometrics.com

It's Government Biometrics Month at FindBiometrics so for the latest episode of the ID Talk Podcast, host Peter Counter speaks with David Benini, Vice President, Marketing and Product, at Aware. The in-depth conversation begins on the topic of what we talk about when we talk about government biometrics – the many different government use cases from law enforcement, to border control and civil ID. Benini goes on to describe a new concept which is being pioneered by Aware and stands to be integral to government identity: the open ABIS. The conversation then takes a shift to the frontier markets, highlighting trends from this year's ID4Africa conference, including the looming threat of vendor lock-in. Listen to the full episode of the ID Talk Podcast for all of that and more on the current state and future of biometric technology in the government sector. To learn more about Aware visit its website: https://www.aware.com/ For more about government biometrics head to https://findbiometrics.com/ and read our most recent featured articles.

Live from Money20/20 Europe! FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World's Director of Digital Content, Susan Stover, sat down for a special edition of the podcast with leading experts in the emerging biometric payment cards market: Fredrik Sjöholm, Vice President Sales, Precise Biometrics; and Sébastien Clamagirand, Vice President and General Manager Secure Payment and Identification for NXP Semiconductors. This in-depth conversation digs into the role of biometric payment cards in today's omni-channel financial environment, key challenges in achieving mass adoption, the future of smart card technology, and much more. Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode by visiting precisebiometrics.com and nxp.com

Readers of FindBiometrics know that May is On-Device Biometrics Month, a five-week deep dive on the authentication paradigm that’s killing passwords. That’s why, in this episode, FindBiometrics podcast host Peter Counter sits down with David Benini, Vice President of Marketing and Product at Aware. Discussion topics include: how biometrics are killing passwords, digital identity in the remote and mobile workplace, liveness detection and more. Learn more about the topics discussed in this episode: download Aware's new white paper, “Enterprise Security in the Age of Remote and Mobile Work” at aware.com/resources

Mobile ID World Managing Editor Peter Counter discusses the big biometrics trends of 2018 with Maxine Most, Principal, Acuity Market Intelligence.