Biometric Privacy is of the Utmost Importance
By Asem Othman | July 25, 2017
This is the first in a series of blogs diving into the technical aspects of Veridium’s distributed data model, biometrics, and computer vision research and development by our chief biometric scientist Asem Othman. Classical biometric systems capture the biological attributes of an individual as images and transform them into a lower dimensional feature space, otherwise […]
Read More The Battle for Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Biometrics
By Ian E. Muller | July 21, 2017
This Weekly Cypher examines changing uses of biometrics for cybersecurity, and the impact these changes may have on privacy for US citizens.
Read More Bouncing Back from a Data Breach
By James Stickland | July 20, 2017
Sooner or later, most businesses will be faced with a data breach, even smaller businesses. In fact, 60 percent of online attacks in 2014 targeted small and midsize businesses. This can spell financial trouble for smaller companies with the price of each compromised record rising to an average of $158 in 2016, according to the […]
Read More Biometric Spoofing Isn’t as Big of a Problem as You Think
By Ian E. Muller | July 18, 2017
Presentation attacks, more commonly referred to as biometric spoofing, are one of the biggest concerns many people have over using biometric authentication. Whether it’s to log into an app or authenticate a financial transaction, no one wants someone else to be able to mimic their fingerprint or face. In fact, many have sworn off biometrics […]
Read More Putting Cybersecurity in Your Hands
By Elizabeth Medeiros | July 14, 2017
Today's Weekly Cypher explores the growing threat a data breach poses, and how companies have to enhance their cybersecurity to prepare for these threats.
Read More No PIN, Big Problem
By Lori Cohen | July 13, 2017
Chip, but no PIN. Is this technology really keeping our finances safe? Is fraud going down? If my experience is any indication of what’s going on in the United States, chip security has some cracks in it. Just the other day on my way to work I got a call from my bank. I typically […]
Read More What’s Your Data Breach Risk Level?
By Ian E. Muller | July 11, 2017
It seems like we’re talking about a new data breach every other day. From the InterContinental Hotels Group to OneLogin, companies across every industry have been targeted so far in 2017, and we can only expect both the size of, and damaged caused by, these events to grow. The question that organization leadership needs to […]
Read More Cybercrime vs. Cybersecurity, Who Will Win?
By Elizabeth Medeiros | July 7, 2017
Today's Weekly Cypher looks at rising cybercrime and the efforts companies are taking to improve their cybersecurity.
Read More Why Financial Services Can No Longer Ignore Blockchain
By John Callahan | July 6, 2017
While it’s stereotypically considered the currency of criminals, bitcoin, and more importantly blockchain, have become one of the most popular topics in banking. It’s expected to have the same global impact that the Internet caused in changing how we do almost everything over the past few decades. But what is blockchain, and why is it […]
Read More From IoT to IoTT: The Journey to an Internet of Trusted Things
By Ian E. Muller | July 4, 2017
We all know that the Internet of Things (IoT) is posing a massive security challenge today. From hackers hijacking IoT devices with malware for DDoS attacks to the leaking of personal data due to a lack of security measures on these gadgets, there are very few pieces of IoT technology that consumers can honestly trust. […]
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