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Identity and access management products

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  CaixaBank customers can use their faces to withdraw money at ATMs

  Spanish bank begins roll-out of ATMs equipped with facial recognition technology, but customers can still use card and PIN

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  NHS extends trials of digital identity system

  The NHS in England is working with external organisations in new pilots to test its secure online login system for healthcare

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Tech sector tells government that digital identity policy is 'urgently required'

  The UK tech sector has urged the government to publish policy to support the creation of a “fully functioning” digital identity market, to boost the digital economy

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Met Police deploys live facial recognition technology for ninth time

  Police say technology is helping to prevent and detect crime by identifying wanted criminals, but privacy groups have voiced their opposition

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Innocent people arrested following surveillance blunders, IPCO reveals

  Interception of communications commissioner Adrian Fulford warns of “grave” repercussions for people wrongly identified as suspects due to errors made when government bodies access email, phone and telephone data

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  Personal records of HIV-positive individuals in Singapore leaked online

  The personal information of 14,200 people with the human immunodeficiency virus was leaked by an American who lived in Singapore

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Poor practices expose 24 million financial records

  Failure to maintain appropriate security controls has again led to the exposure of millions of sensitive data records, this time from the banking world

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  SingHealth and IT supplier fined S$1m for data breach

  Singapore’s data protection commission considered the fact that both SingHealth and its IT supplier fell prey to sophisticated threat actors, among other factors, when meting out the fine

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  UK contactless card fraud surges

  Fraudsters stole £1.18m from contactless users in 2018, with the average theft size also increasing

• January 06, 2019 06 Jan'19

  Singapore Airlines’ software glitch exposed customer data

  More than 280 members of the Krisflyer frequent flyer programme had their personal information compromised by a one-off software bug

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  Modern IT underlines need for zero-trust security

  The increasing complexity of supply chains and interconnectivity of IT systems means the attack surface is widening and security has to evolve accordingly, warns British computer scientist

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  How e-signatures fix broken digitisation

  A big barrier to the end-to-end digitisation of business processes is that certain steps require paper – but DocuSign plans to fix this

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  Marriott data breach losses could be over half a billion dollars

  Direct losses related to a huge data breach at US hotel group could reach $600m

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  APAC cyber security landscape to be more tumultuous in 2019

  Amid growing cyber threats, the Asia-Pacific cyber security landscape will not get any rosier in 2019 unless organisations start shoring up their cyber hygiene

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Mobile security needs a rethink for the 5G era

  A report released through the government’s 5G Testbeds and Trials programme has recommended the UK rethink its mobile security strategy