Digital identity experts in Australia have said that smart devices will be crucial as governments and industries shift towards mobile and digital identity.Speaking at a Digital Identity roundtable held in Sydney, for instance, Australia Post's Digital Delivery Centre general manager Cameron Gough believes smart device identification will involve multi-factor authentication.”Just having the device might be one and then touch ID and potentially a face biometric. Depending on what transaction you are doing I think it provides a smorgasbord of possibilities for authentication,” he said, reported the Financial Review.”If you're on the phone and you're calling a contact centre, then the device in the background is probably enough to verify an individual but you could add voice. And if you're online, there would be other ways to verify a user. The beauty of a device is there's a microphone, a screen, touch ID and a camera presenting all of these possibilities to verify your identity.”Earlier this month, Australian telecoms firm Telstra has said that a combination of blockchain and biometrics offers the best chances of securing IoT-enabled homes. The company is now piloting the combination, according to Katherine Robins, principal security expert at Telstra, reported ZdNet.Speaking at the Telstra Vantage 2016 conference in Melbourne, she said: “A private blockchain ߪ gives you the ability to have that resolution time very, very short. Those of you who know anything about bitcoin knows that it can take a long time to attach something to the blockchain; it's in excess of 10 minutes. If you've got a permissioned blockchain, and it's a smaller user base, you get the ability to do it faster, and if you're not attaching a lot of data and you're just doing hashes, then it's almost immediate.”
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