The past year has been exciting and dynamic in the world of mobile identity management. As connected mobile devices proliferate across the globe and demand for post-password security grows, the very concept of identity is starting to change in a big way for end users, organizations, vendors and relying parties alike.
Now that December is here, it’s time to take a look back on 2014 and some of the more important events and ideas of the year.
2014 saw the start of our monthly themed content, which helps shed light on some of the more interesting aspects of mobile identity that we don’t normally get to cover in our daily news coverage. Here is what we talked about this year.
In Your Wallet
Mobile commerce has had quite a year. With real deployments of mobile biometric payments making it into the hands of users around the world, few applications of identity management have made such a mainstream impact. Though the industry news was filled to the brim with mCommerce news all year, especially in the later half, May was the month we chose to take a look at the application on the verge of a boom.
mCommerce Month – Week 1: The Primer
mCommerce Month Feature Two: The Importance Of The End User Experience
In Your Pocket
In conjunction with our sister site, FindBiometrics, Mobile ID World spent June celebrating the diversity of strong authentication modalities. During Mobile Multi-Modal Month we highlighted the many ways that biometric technology and mobility can combine to offer post-password security, and also examined how those factors are changing the very nature of how we define ourselves as unique individuals.
Mobile Multi-Modal Month – Feature One: The Primer
Mobile Multi-Modal Month – Feature 2: Your Next Generation Identity
The Road To Biometrics UnPlugged
This year, Mobile ID World, FindBiometrics and Acuity Market Intelligence hosted the second annual Biometrics UnPlugged event in Tampa, Florida. The day long event was focused on commerce, mobility and privacy, so in the months leading up to it, that’s exactly what we focused on in the featured articles.
Road2BUP: Mobile ID World Summer Event Roundup
In the Cloud
October was Cloud Authentication month in which we examined the disruptive applications and service models that result from this increasingly accessible technology.
Cloud Authentication Month – The Primer
Cloud Authentication Month: 3 Applications of Biometrics And The Cloud
Cloud Authentication Month: Biometrics as a Service
In Your Heart
Most recently, we spent November examining one of the most far reaching biometric modalities in the mobile sphere: vital biometrics. Last month we talked about how mobile and wearable tech that can measure your vitals has applications in authentication, finance, healthcare and more.
Vital Biometrics Month: The Primer
Vital Biometrics Month: I Heart Authentication
Vital Biometrics Month: Three Crazy Uses For Vital Biometrics
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