Explainer: Autonomous and Semi-autonomous vehicles
You’ve heard of autonomous vehicles — cars that can drive themselves. But what you may not know is that there are actually multiple levels of possible autonomy, and we’re living with some of those early levels now with newer vehicles that includes advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). These systems help with safety and comfortable driving. […]
11 Lessons from Microsoft
(Alex Hinrichs, a long-time Microsoft release manager, just announced his retirement. Here are some of the lessons he’s learned, posted on LinkedIn). I heartily agree with all of these! Engineering is all about people. Big software projects are built by giant human systems, and giant human systems run on relationships. Good relationships require trust. Trust is built via daily face-to-face […]
Biometrics Drive the Future of Payments
> Reprint: Payments Next by Ned Hayes, General Manager, SureID It’s Monday, and you need a little brain fuel in the form of caffeine intake. When you pull up to the ordering station, you name your drink. When you order, you tap the kiosk with one finger. A moment later, you pick up the […]
Defending Biometric Security – Gluecon
Great session at Gluecon yesterday on Defending Biometric Security — here are the overview slides on the session I conducted. High level overview, but a very useful and detailed conversation afterward that went to a deeper level. Hope this high level overview is as useful to others as it was to our group who discussed […]
INTERVIEW: Ned Hayes on Biometrics and the Human Element of Identity
> Reprint: Find Biometrics April 15, 2019 FindBiometrics Director of Digital Content, Susan Stover, spoke with Ned Hayes, General Manager of Sure ID. Their discussion starts on the topic of SureID’s decades-long history in access management and identity, and its recent “re-start up”, before delving into the aspects of its biometric technology that differentiate it in the […]
Ethics and Biometric Identity
Reprint: Security InfoWatch Biometrics represent a huge advancement from the centuries-old use of paper documentation but with a price Ned Hayes Mar 18th, 2019 Biometrics is a powerful technological advancement in the identification and security space. But with that power comes a deep need for accountability and close ethical scrutiny. Alice enters a twelve-digit […]
How to Use Biometrics to Ensure Security: An Interview with Ned Hayes of SureID — Toolbox Interview
| Interview with Ned Hayes (Re-posted from Toolbox) By Neha Pradhan Thursday, February 14, 2019 “Biometrics provide multiple modalities and are not so easy to fake, spoof, or duplicate in real-time, they have now taken the pole position in terms of identity proofing.” The General Manager of SureID, Ned Hayes, weighs in on how the use […]
The Biometric Threat
> Reprint: CPO Magazine. In a recent survey, a majority of consumers told IBM that they’re comfortable using biometrics, and 87% even said they’d be comfortable using biometrics as their only authentication means in the future. Millennials proved the most at ease with new tech, with 75% reporting that using biometric identifiers was not a […]
Bridging the Physical/Digital Divide (with Ned Hayes of SureID)
Episode 107 Risk and Compliance Bridging the Physical/Digital Divide with SureID February 14, 2019 Join SureID General Manager Ned Hayes as he shares how SureID is bringing FBI-approved background checks to nearly 1,000 locations nationwide with military-grade biometric capture technology. https://media.blubrry.com/stateofidentity/p/content.blubrry.com/stateofidentity/SOI_2019_02_14_SureID.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | RSS Host: Cameron […]
Intel Context Sensing: Wins CES 2019 Innovation Award
I’m excited to note that the Dell Latitude 7400 2 won a CES Innovation Award at CES 2019, partially because of the stellar features that I helped to design and implement at Intel as leader of the Intel Context Sensing team. The Dell Latitude 7400 2 -in-1 is the world’s smallest commercial 14” 2-in-1 targeting […]