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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Cyber Defense Magazine: How to be Smarter about Biometrics

Article in Cyber Defense Magazine, January 2019 — Ned Hayes, General Manager, SureID Facial recognition, one of the most popular methods of biometric enrollment and customized marketing, will bring us to ultra-surveillance, targeted assassinations and Black Mirror-style oversight. At least, this is what critics of the technology would have you believe. Yet we don’t see […]

The Biometric Threat – Some Preventative Measures

  | New post published by Technica Curiosa. Complete article here >>We live in an age where personal information is difficult to protect, and passwords are far from unbreakable. Recently, IBM surveyed nearly 4,000 people and learned that 67% are comfortable using biometrics, and 87% would be comfortable using biometric authentication in the future. Millennials are particularly comfortable with […]

Google I/O Day Zero 2018

I love going to developer shows and talking to software engineers about the toolsets our teams develop at Intel. For me, since I spend so much of my time in meetings and planning sessions, it is a refreshing opportunity to re-engage with the actual use cases and the actual developer customers who use our tools. […]

Enhancing Intel’s Next Generation Drone Platform with the Intel® Context Sensing SDK

The Intel® Context Sensing SDK surfaces the power of the Intel Integrated Sensor Solution and advanced sensor capabilities to power mobile, laptop, IOT and wearable apps. What if the Intel Context Sensing SDK could be used to understand a drone’s environment and even control a drone?  That’s the vision we set out to discover in this […]

Intel Context Sensing Solution for IOT and OEMs

The Intel Context Sensing SDK is now deployed on over 100 million IOT devices worldwide. Ned Hayes co-presented with Intel EVP Doug Fisher on Stage at the Intel Developer Forum. See below for the launch video about the Intel Context Sensing SDK.