Government Security News August Digital Edition

cating will be replaced by more satisfying
alternatives.
Mid-year update: Customers continue
to want an easier, more trustworthy
way to use digital identities to access
on-the-go services and applications.
Studies repeatedly highlighted the importance
of the user experience -- the
Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific study
ranked it among the top two most important
drivers for deploying mobile
access control over the next three years.
Biometrics continued to emerge as an
effective solution for bringing
together security and convenience
together -- this approach
is now used at four of
Brazil’s top five financial institutions
to simplify an estimated
two billion trusted ATM
transactions annually.
Trend #3: Secure, connected
identities will fuel safety and innovation
in how we work, shop and play:
The industry will enter its next new
chapter of connected identities, employing
multi-layered security strategies
that also include biometrics in
order to bind these identities to their
legitimate owners.
Mid-year update: An explosion
of trusted digital identities began ushering
in new innovation opportunities
during the first half of the year. This
trend is being fueled by a growing interest
in wearables and use of sensors
for IoT-based solutions aimed at new
use cases for employee productivity, asset
tracking, energy management and
employee safety. These developments
serve as critical points of unification
for trusted identities that make digital
interactions more personal, contextual
and valuable, and will pave the way
for innovations like building occupant
apps for the smart facility that enhance
the user experience. During 2016, financial
institutions made some of
the most visible advances on the trust
front, adopting a multi-layered approach
to addressing potential mobile
banking challenges at both the front
end (consumer devices) and the back
end (banking systems that recognize
and facilitate legitimate user requests
through mobile devices).
Trend #4: There will be more attention
on privacy in an increasingly connected
and mobile-first world: Identity
will expand beyond people and
their personal identity to the identity
of objects and their authenticity, accentuating
the need to protect personal
information across increasingly
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interconnected devices, services and
applications.
Mid-year update: Gartner forecasts
that 5.5 million new “things” are getting
connected every day in 2016, increasing
the need for embedded security
and privacy technology across the
payments, transportation, industrial,
consumer and healthcare markets.
In the earlier CityPoint example, this
“Security of Things” goal is achieved
by adding trust to RFID tags and to
their interactions with mobile devices.
Biometrics also continues to
play a pivotal role in privacy
protection for an increasingly
connected world, and solutions
became available in early 2016
that include intelligent encryption-enabled
and tamper-resistant
fingerprint devices to more
effectively address these challenges.
Trend #5: Security policies and best
practices will become as important
as technology advances: The industry
will sharpen its focus on not only
what to deploy, but how – from the
first U.S. mobile driver licenses to
unified credential management systems
that enable organizations to
more holistically address both facility
and information security. Rather
than focus exclusively on preventing
breaches, the industry will also adopt
best practices for controlling what
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