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 […]
Taking ethical action in identity: 5 steps for better biometrics
| Published in Help Net Security this week: Taking Ethical Action in Identity – 5 Steps Towards Better Biometrics Glance at your phone. Tap a screen. Secure access granted! This is the power of biometric identity at work. The convenience of unlocking your phone with a fingertip or your face is undeniable. But ethical issues […]
SnowShoe Launches New Year with New Executives, New Website
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan 11, 2019 — SnowShoe, the leading developer of physical presence systems for mobile event authentication, today announced the appointment of Ned Hayes as VP of Product. The company also launched a new website at Snow.sh. Portland startup expert Rick Turoczy introduced Hayes to the hiring team at SnowShoe. Turoczy is the Portland […]
Beat Box Breakdown: Board Game Creation
Here are some pictures, as well as some of the instructions for the game. Your hip-hop journey in Beat Box Breakdown travels in a clockwise spiral as you move from listener to garage rapping to freestyling in local venues to national online acclaim and then opening in national stadiums, culminating in Coachella, Los Angeles and […]
Beating the DeepMaster Print Exploit
Philip Bontrager, lead researcher on the “DeepMasterPrint” fingerprint hack, thinks that the SureID process for high-fidelity fingerprint enrollment has multiple layers of protection against hackers. “The NYU research into DeepMasterPrint is fascinating, but it focuses on low-fidelity, smartphone-based authentication,” says Ned Hayes. “SureID’s system is built with patent-pending technology that prevents fraudulent activity.” Bontrager’s DeepMasterPrint […]
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 […]