Identity will hold the keys to the kingdom for cybercriminals
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
In 2023, identity will continue to hold the keys to the kingdom for cybercriminals. This is a continuation from 2022, with the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) attributing 80% of basic web application attacks to the use of stolen credentials like passwords. Security incidents usually involve a variety of techniques, from social engineering to supply chai...
Cloudentity selects customer identity and access management leader
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Cloudentity has selected customer identity and access management (CIAM) leader Simeio as a delivery partner to accelerate its flexible and scalable solutions for authorization governance automation. Supporting strict Open Banking compliance standards, as well as PSD2, Cloudentity has more than doubled its year-over-year sales growth and has...
INTUITION.DEV wants to help developers survive the coming tech crash
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 by Richard Harris
Hacker News announced the release of a first working version of INTUITION.DEV. INTUITION.DEV is a completely free and open source low-code tool specifically designed for professional developers, not citizen developers.
Bubble (a commercial low-code tool for citizen-developers) estimated savings of ten to 50 times on traditional development costs through low-code, and...
Videoselfie authentication tool launches
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 by Richard Harris
Jumio announced the launch of Jumio Authentication, a new video-selfie authentication that uses biometrics for user authentication, that could be ideal for account logins and high-risk scenarios (e.g., logging in from a foreign IP address or authorizing high-risk transactions such as wire transfers and online purchases). Secure selfie authentication can also be use...
AimBrain joins the ForgeRock Trust Network with biometric solutions
Thursday, December 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
AimBrain announced its place on the ForgeRock Trust Network, which recently celebrated the traction made by the end of its first year. ForgeRock Trust Network is a global partner programme designed to provide organizations with access to a comprehensive range of authentication, risk and fraud management, identity proofing and identity enrichment solutions, all of which ...
AI digital voice assistants stops listening as much thanks to Sensory
Friday, September 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Sensory announced that it has made significant upgrades to the embedded AI in its sixth generation of TrulyHandsfree, boosting the technology’s wake word performance and accuracy by more than 65 percent. Additionally, TrulyHandsfree boasts improved deep-neural network training that allows for even better near- and far-field speech recognition performance in all ro...
Adding a MobilePKI SDK to any mobile app without code
Friday, February 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Appdome announces the general availability of “Appdome for Gemalto” - a service that enables codeless integration of Gemalto’s MobilePKI SDK to any mobile app. Available in the platform’s Identity service category, Appdome for Gemalto streamlines the implementation of Gemalto’s MobilePKI solution by eliminating the cost and complexity associated with manual coding. Cust...
Why your app should have OAuth 2.0
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 by James King
Consumer demand couldn’t be more clear - the more apps, the better. On average, consumers launch at least nine apps per day and more than 30 each month, and they tend to browse such apps for hours at a time. Users spend more than three hours a day on their smartphones, and nearly 90 percent of that time is devoted to apps. While much is made of app responsiven...
ScaleArc now supports Microsoft Azure SQL database
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Austin Harris
ScaleArc has announced that it has integrated its ScaleArc for SQL Server software with Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Customers of Microsoft Azure Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) software can now benefit from the seamless scale out, faster application performance, and high availability features of the ScaleArc software. With this enhancement, customers can now take advant...
What's so tricky about Android security anyway
Monday, December 12, 2016 by Don Duncan
Android authentication can be a tricky business because it can help identify the user, but it can also open the door to hackers at the same time. It all comes down to the device administrator access which comes with a lot of benefits like. Device administrator access provides complete device management access rights that include creating and managing poli...
7 hurdles in IoT mobile app development
Thursday, November 3, 2016 by Daniel Myers
For manufacturers interested in developing connected products for the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile app development represents entirely new and unknown territory. And even experienced mobile app developers find that the IoT poses all kinds of new challenges.Before embarking on any connected-product project, it’s crucial to understand why IoT mobile apps are different...
Paving the way to smarter phone security
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 by Robert Capps
75 million Smartphone users admit that while they are afraid of cyber attacks, they have not set a password for their smartphones according to the latest TransUnion’s Cyber Security Survey. While at first glance, this seems completely alarming and the ramifications could result in identity theft, it is also not surprising as consumers are not technologists and they just...
Samsung Teams With Sensory for Face and Voice Authentication
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
Samsung SDS, Samsung Group’s IT service provider is teaming up with Sensory to offer banks and enterprise customers high-security embedded face and voice biometric recognition technologies. Sensory’s TrulySecure technology will be added to Samsung’s FIDO biometric authentication offering. Samsung’s SDS FIDO Client product will use Sensory’s FIDO UAF Certified ...
The Unsung Side Of Mobile Apps: Bootstrapping Development With Mobile Backend Services
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Mike Thompson
There’s more to a successful mobile app than a slick UI and cross-platform availability. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) makes developing compelling, full featured apps faster and easier.When building applications, every budding developer knows the temptation of fixating on the UI at the expense of algorithms, data structures and state management. After al...
Appmobi Provides Enterprise Security to Hybrid HTML5 and Cordova Mobile Apps
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Appmobi has released the new Appmobi Secure Mobile Platform providing enterprise-grade security to hybrid HTML5 and Cordova mobile apps. The Appmobi Secure Mobile Platform integrates and works with a developer’s existing development tools, providing the services required to build secure hybrid apps in an easy-to-install package that can be hosted on an enterprise’s priv...
Axway Launches New API Security Offerings
Friday, September 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
Axway has made a number of updates to in its release of Axway 5 Suite API Management, release 7.4.1 including built-in API Firewalling capabilities. The Axway 5 Suite API Management platform provides companies with an enterprise-grade API management and security platform offering the ability to protect against malicious attacks, including Denial of Service (DoS), c...
Embarcadero Releases Major Updates for Its RAD Studio XE8 Connected App Platform
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has released a major update to its RAD Studio XE8 connected app platform. Included in this new release is the ability for Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to leverage their Windows VCL applications and build expanded, innovative solutions for mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT).RAD Studio XE8 delivers connectivi...
New IBM MobileFirst Platform Supports Native, Web, and Hybrid Apps
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM has announced modular mobile solutions as part of the new IBM MobileFirst Platform to help organizations manage apps and support successful mobile adoption across the enterprise.IBM MobileFirst Platform is a mobile enterprise application platform that helps developers create native, Web, or hybrid apps. Because it’s based on open standards, the MobileFirst Platform ...
KeyLemon Launches Cloud based Face and Speaker Recognition APIs for Development
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
KeyLemon, a creator of biometric ID and motion analysis technologies, has released access to its security recognition via a web service. KeyLemon’s biometric ID provides an alternative to passcodes, key fobs or secret information to facilitate authentication and access control for online assets. Through its Okta Application Network (OAN), Okta provides the ability for u...
Embarcadero Releases IoT Services for Mobile App Developers
Friday, September 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero has announced its strategy for IoT, focusing on four areas of interconnection: mobile/desktop devices; gadgets; cloud services; and, data. Embarcadero is offering new technologies to address these areas and enable the development of new connected apps for the IoT market.
New IoT technologies include:
User Interface (UI) Design for Multiple For...
FeedHenry Offers Field Workforce Management Enterprise Mobile Solution
Monday, July 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
FeedHenry has launched its Field Workforce Management (WFM) mobile solution, offering ready-to-run field workforce management features that can be customized and configured to support company-specific field workflow processes, backend data integration, forms, and branding. The solution offers cross-platform capability which supports deployment to all majo...
What Developers Need to Know About Apple’s HealthKit and HIPAA Compliance
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 by Jason Wang
Apple gave the world a glimpse at the next wave of digital innovation at their annual WorldWide Developers conference with the launch of HealthKit and companion app Health. Both instantly turn the iPhone into arguably the largest digital health platform in the world. While wearables have captured attention and interest, from the Nike Fuelband to Google Gl...
Docker Announces Docker Version 1.0 and New Docker Hub Cloud Service
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Docker is an open platform for developers to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be assembled from components and helps to eliminate the friction between development, QA, and...
Embarcadero RAD Studio XE6 Provides C++ Visual Development Environment for Android
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero Technologies is now offering RAD Studio XE6, a multi-device, natively compiled app development platform for Windows, Android, iOS and Mac.RAD Studio XE6 introduces a C++ visual development environment for Android apps, enabling developers to modernize their Windows applications with VCL enhancements and expansion to mobile, and facilitates the crea...
Kinvey Launches New Libraries for Mobile Web Development
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Kinvey has announced new libraries for mobile web development including a full range of JavaScript, Backbone.js, Ember.js and Angular.js frameworks in addition to enhancements to its PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium modules. These new capabilities give enterprise customers more flexibility to deliver mobile applications for employees, partners and custo...
Add Functionality Similar to Skype or FaceTime Into Your Apps With QuickBlox
Thursday, November 21, 2013 by Richard Harris
QuickBlox, a cloud backend (mBaaS) platform has released video calling SDK libraries and code samples for iOS and Android allowing developers and publishers to add functionality similar to Skype or Facetime into their apps. Of backend as a service platforms, QuickBlox is the first to provide the video chat working between iOS and Android. 6,000 app publishers are alread...
Push Notification For iOS From Windows Azure Mobile Services
Thursday, December 6, 2012 by Richard Harris
Windows Azure Mobile Services is a service offered by Microsoft that allows mobile developers to create background services such as user authentication, push notifications, and saving data to the cloud, more simple.Azure with iOS Push Notifications just became an official feature and is talented to be the easiest way to fire push notifications to your mobile users....