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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Oly Arts Success Story: $350K exit
Founder of local multi-platform publication group successfully sells off publication unit to local entrepreneur Coverage included: The Olympian: Founder Sells to Local Marketing Leader Sound Sound Business: Oly Arts Bought by Local Publisher OLY ARTS, the three-year-old multiplatform publication focused on arts and cultural events in Thurston County and surrounding regions, announced today that the […]
Trains, planes and Seattle supercommuters
Reprint: Seattle Times For two years, technology product manager Ned Hayes would rise before the sun at 4 a.m. every Monday to drive to SeaTac airport from his home in Olympia. He would hop a flight to San Jose, Calif., and arrive at his workplace in Palo Alto just in time for the weekly 9:30 […]
Future of Technology: A Few Predictions
I recently gave an interview to a pair of researchers about what I thought was coming in future technology. (transcript follows) Thanks to many for re-posting! 1. INVISIBLE A couple things I think are essential about technology. Really good technology should be mostly invisible to the user. Technology in general should be something that lets people get […]