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Biometric access control options grow with new partnership, launches and integrations

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Biometrics are being built into an ever-increasing range of access control solutions, with the latest crop covering fingerprint, face and iris modalities. SentryCards are expected to roll out late this year with Idex Biometrics sensors to secure access control for a range of settings, while Ayonix has launched a new platform and Hikvision a new terminal for face and iris biometric access, respectively. A new software integration brings Idemia fingerprinting to Telaeris software, and Precise Biometrics has been certified for Genetec’s access security platform.

Idex Biometrics partners with Sentry

Idex Biometrics is contributing its Trustedbio Max fingerprint sensor solution to the SentryCard biometric access control platform from U.S.-based Sentry Enterprises.

SentryCard is certified for multiple access control technologies, including FIDO2, and an order has been placed with Idex to support the solution’s initial production ahead of a planned market launch in the fourth quarter of 2022.

“We are delighted to collaborate with Sentry Enterprises as we continue to capture the increasing demand for digital authentication in the United States and across the globe, as the SentryCard will be secured by our TrustedBio Max sensor solution with integrated MCU and PMU,” comments Vince Graziani, CEO of Idex Biometrics. ”We are confident this biometric card solution will deliver increased performance and cost efficiency for customers while providing a seamless and secure user authentication experience.”

SentryCard is intended for access control use by enterprises, governments and individuals, without relying on PINs or passwords.

“The Idex Biometrics technology was a natural complement to Sentry’s growing ecosystem of identity-based solutions,” says Mark Bennett, CEO of Sentry Enterprises. “We believe absolute trust of identity is a fundamental necessity for any secure interaction, whether it’s an employee badging through the front door or logging into a computer system. The challenge is providing resilient solutions that are both secure and respect people’s privacy. The SentryCard biometric identity platform is one of the first solutions in the world…

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Digital Platforms Empower Investors through Control, Convenience and Confidence

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The pandemic may have changed how we use technology, and ultimately how we manage our finances.

Throughout the pandemic, people increasingly relied on digital platforms, such as websites, apps and videoconferencing tools, for work and personal activities. At the same time, organizations improved their online customer experiences by embedding new technologies, making investments, and accelerating enhancements to respond to increased digital traffic. These advances often came with the goal of nudging people’s everyday choices and behaviors as well as improving consumer decision-making.

It appears to be working. Companies are interacting with customers through digital channels more than ever. In fact, in the U.S. 65% of customer interactions were digital in nature in July 2020, up from just 41% in December 2019, according to McKinsey research. It would have taken three years to see this increase under prior digital adoption rates.

Interactions with financial companies were no exception. In a recent survey of U.S. investors, Vanguard found that digital engagement for completing financial activities is strong. Roughly 70% of respondents reported they are comfortable conducting financial business online, and more than half (53%) are comfortable doing most of their investing online. Further, 60% of respondents prefer conducting financial activities online over other methods, such as in-person transactions and phoning customer service.

Survey participants cite a plethora of benefits to engaging with their money digitally, which primarily boil down to a sense of control and the ability to save time. Specifically, investors cited saving time (81%), the ability to conduct financial business at any time (75%), and faster access to their money (67%) as reasons investors prefer digital engagement.

Advantages such as the ability to transact business in real-time and broad accessibility of online financial websites allow people to take many financial interactions into their own hands. More control (47%) and more responsiveness (38%) also ranked among the top benefits of digital engagement. Whether simply checking the performance of specific stocks or interacting with their 401(k) investments,…

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Critical Filewave MDM Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers Full Mobile Device Control

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Two vulnerabilities in FileWave’s multiplatform mobile device management (MDM) system would have allowed malicious actors to bypass authentication mechanisms, taking control of the platform and the devices linked to it.

FileWave’s MDM platform allows admins to push software updates to devices, lock them or even remotely wipe devices.

A report from Claroty’s Team82 takes a closer look at CVE-2022-34907, an authentication bypass flaw, and CVE-2022-34906, a hard-coded cryptographic key — vulnerabilities that Filewave addressed with a recent update.

According to the report, the researchers discovered more than 1,100 different instances of vulnerable Internet-facing FileWave MDM servers across multiple industries, including in large enterprises, education, and government agencies.

Buggy MDM Admin Web Server

The platform’s MDM Web server, written in Python, is a key component that allows the admin to interact with the devices and receive information from them.

“Since this service should be accessible to mobile devices at all times, it is usually exposed to the Internet, and handles both clients’ and admins’ requests,” according to the report. “Its connectivity makes it a primary target in our research on this platform.”

One of the back-end services on the server, the scheduler service, which schedules and executes specific tasks required by the MDM platform, uses a hard-coded shared secret function to grant access to the “super_user” account — the platform’s most privileged user.

“If we know the shared secret and supply it in the request, we do not need to supply a valid user’s token or know the user’s username and password,” the report says.

Also, by exploiting the authentication-bypass vulnerability, the team was able to achieve super_user access and take full control over any Internet-connected MDM instance.

In a proof-of-concept exploit, the team was able to push a malicious package to all the devices in the system and then execute remote code to install fake ransomware across all of them.

“This exploit, if used maliciously, could allow remote attackers to easily attack and infect all Internet-accessible instances managed by the FileWave MDM, … allowing attackers to control…

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Digital Security Control System Market Is Booming Worldwide

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Digital Security Control System Market

According to Qurate Research’s research experts, “Global Digital Security Control System Market 2022 Insights, Size, Share, Growth, Opportunities, Emerging Trends, Forecast to 2028.” The study is an anthology of in-depth research studies on many aspects of the global Digital Security Control System industry. It is an admirable effort to offer a true, transparent picture of the current and future conditions of the global Digital Security Control System market, based on credible facts and exceptionally accurate data.

“Global Digital Security Control System Market Insights, Size, Share, Growth, Opportunities, Emerging Trends, Forecast to 2028,” according to a Qurate Research report. Several in-depth research studies on various facets of the worldwide Digital Security Control System market are included in the report. It’s a commendable effort to present a true, transparent view of the existing and future situations of the worldwide Digital Security Control System market, based on reliable facts and extraordinarily precise statistics.

Key players Profiled In This Report Are:

Gemalto N.V
FireEye, Inc
Oberthur Technologies
Safenet, Inc
Vasco Data Security International, Inc
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Key Market Segmentation of Digital Security Control System:

Product Type Segmentation

Hardware
Software
Service

Application Segmentation

Mobile Security & Telecommunication
Finance & Banking,
Healthcare
Commercial

Scope of the Digital Security Control System Market Report:
The research examines the key players in the global Digital Security Control System market in detail, focusing on their market share, gross margin, net profit, sales, product portfolio, new applications, recent developments, and other factors. It also sheds light on the vendor landscape, helping players to foresee future competitive movements in the global Digital Security Control System business.

This study estimates the market size in terms of both value (millions of dollars) and volume (millions of units) (K Units). Both top-down and bottom-up techniques were used to estimate and validate the market size of the Digital Security Control System market, as well as the size of various other dependent submarkets in the…

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