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Entrust, a global pioneer in trusted payments, identities, and data security announced a single-vendor enhanced authentication solution that integrates identity verification (IDV) and identity and access management (IAM) to fight deepfakes, phishing, account takeover (ATO) attacks and other threats.  Identity authentication By enhancing the Entrust Identity as a Service (IDaaS) platform with Onfido’s AI-powered document and biometric verification, customers will be able to deploy ne...

Entrust, a global pioneer in trusted payments, identities, and data security, announced that it has completed its acquisition of Onfido, a global pioneer in identity verification. With this completed acquisition, Entrust now provides the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of AI-powered, identity-centric security solutions. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Onfido’s technology Attacks on identity are on the rise, with nearly two-thirds of data breaches caused by comp...

Technology can be a powerful tool, but it can also be misused. Ethical principles help ensure that technology is used in a way that minimises risks and avoids causing harm to people or society. Issues could include factors such as data privacy and algorithmic bias of certain technologies. As the security industry embraces advanced and evolving technologies, we asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What are the biggest ethical considerations of using emerging technologies in physical s...

Technological leaps in the last several decades have revolutionised biometrics. The technologies are constantly evolving, spanning facial recognition to iris scanning to fingerprints, to provide new levels of security and convenience. Biometrics are everywhere, from smartphones to border control, constantly evolving to meet the needs of our increasingly digital world. They are also more accurate and easier to use than ever. We asked this week's Expert Panel Roundtable: What’s new with biom...

As the new year dawns, it's a good time for the security industry to look ahead to 2024. We asked this week's Expert Panel Roundtable: What will be the biggest surprise for security in the year ahead? 

Ideally, every new product or technology serves a need in the market, but not all new products are created equal. The impact of some new technologies is so profound that they make us rethink our preconceptions and may create a total transition in the broader market. These are the technologies we call “game changers” because they prompt a significant shift in the current manner of doing or thinking about security. We asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What current techno...

Entrust, a global pioneer in identity and data security, has been positioned by Gartner® as a Challenger in the Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for its offering, the Entrust Identity as a Service IAM solution. The evaluation was based on specific criteria that analysed the company’s overall completeness of vision and ability to execute. Entrust was one of just 11 providers placed in the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Access Management. Robust first line of defence “T...

Entrust, a global pioneer in trusted identity, payments, and data announced a technology alliance partnership with NEDAP, an access control provider, to deliver interoperability between credential issuance and ID programme management capabilities. Managing physical access for people, visitors and assets is complex and ever-evolving. Organisations seek access control programmes that can provide both credential issuance and access management capabilities but find that they need to manage multiple...

Entrust, a global pioneer in trusted identities, payments, and data announced its pioneering role in the evolution of digital travel experiences. Eurostar SmartCheck system With Entrust solutions helping to power the Eurostar SmartCheck system, the UK Home Office's digitised immigration application process, the new UK Electronic Travel Authorisation, and more, Entrust is pioneering the implementation of Digital Travel Credentials that are transforming the travel experience. "Entrust's partici...

Time flies in the busy world of security, so it’s no surprise that the midpoint of 2023 comes before know it. Let’s pause after the first half of the year to look ahead at what can expect during the second half (Hint: It’s all about AI). We asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What will likely be the most important technology development in the security marketplace in the second half of 2023?

A sad irony in the physical security industry has been the lax attention paid historically to the cybersecurity elements of our industry’s systems. However, the picture has improved starkly in recent years as manufacturers have stepped up to meet the cybersecurity challenges and awareness of the issue has become much higher. We asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What's new in cybersecurity for physical security systems?

Entrust, a pioneer in trusted payments, identities, and digital infrastructure is now offering its cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalogue with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Entrust Identity as a Service (IDaaS) offers a cloud-based solution that includes Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), password less log...

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) remains the cornerstone of nearly every IT security environment, but even as the technology matures, new use cases, and rising compliance mandates are adding new challenges to infosec professionals charged with managing PKI implementations. This is a key theme that comes out of the 2022 Global PKI and IoT Trends Study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by Entrust, a pioneer in trusted payments, identities, and digital infrastructure. Internal dev...

Entrust, a globally renowned company in trusted payments, identities and digital infrastructure, has had nine of its cloud and associated support services approved for the G-Cloud Framework. This platform enables public bodies in the United Kingdom (UK) to procure commodity-based, pay-as-you-go cloud services on government-approved, short-term contracts through an online catalogue called the Digital Marketplace. Entrust services support UK’s ‘Cloud First’ policy This streaml...

Versasec, a provider of state-of-the-art, highly secure identity and access management software, announced that they are expanding their partnership with Entrust, a pioneer in trusted payments, identities and digital infrastructure, to deliver a “one-stop shopping” experience for credential management integrated with a secure public key infrastructure (PKI) solution. “This is significant and exciting news for our customers and for both of our companies,” said Joakim Thor...

Global pioneers in identity and access management, Device Authority, and Entrust, a provider of trusted identities, payments, and data protection solutions, have partnered to help businesses remove the logistical challenges of large-scale IoT deployment by offering automated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate management. Data trust and automation at IoT scale Recently identified as pioneers in IoT Device Identity Lifecycle Management by ABI Research, the two companies have integr...

The Strategic Partners Programme ispart of INTERPOL World 2015 whichwill be held from 14 – 16 April 2015 INTERPOL World has launched a Strategic Partners Programme with leading private-sector security solutions providers to jointly create innovative solutions to real-world security challenges faced by global police organisations, government agencies and the private sector. As part of the programme, stakeholders across the public and private sectors, internatio...

The panel of Datacard Group experts will discuss the identity and global landscape of the markets Datacard Group and Entrust Inc., leaders in securing identities and safeguarding transactions in both physical and digital environments will be presenting trends, technologies and best practices for secure documents and identity programs. This event is being hosted by the Vice President’s office in Nicaragua. This full-day seminar is being held today and will include attend...

The acquisition will provide a robust platform for integrated offerings Datacard Group, the industry’s best-selling brand of secure identification and card personalisation solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire Entrust, Inc., a leader in securing digital identities and information and a Thoma Bravo LLC portfolio company. The acquisition builds on the strengths of each company to enable its customers and partners to deliver better services in highly connected...