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Modernising governance: A Capability-centric approach to legacy mainframes
Governing Business Actions, Not Entitlements By Tuhin Banerjee, Senior Director Saviynt Inc. 1. Abstract Mainframe and IBM i platforms continue to run the enterprise’s most critical financial and operational workloads, yet access governance for these systems is...
Why a new identity category won’t save you
Guest Post by Abhay Kulkarni, Widefield.ai Here's a scenario that will be familiar to any CISO who has sat through a vendor briefing in the last three years: a salesperson opens with a slide full of overlapping acronyms: ITDR, ISPM, PAM, NHI, IVIP. Each represents a...
Belgium travel congestion delays EES entry
The minister of the interior in Belgium has postponed their compliance with EES rules to collect biometrics, as test runs of biometric registration proved to extend travel queues. The Entry/Exit System has gradually been implemented since October, with a strict...
How ICMPD is supporting Ukraine’s border resilience during crisis
https://youtu.be/14fXNq71Mhs The International Centre for Migration Policy Development, which supports government migration management policies, has been a critical agency on Ukraine's side in the context of war. We invited ICMPD's Senior Project Manager, Vyacheslav...
Kantara Initiative to collaborate with the OIDF on the role of Authorised Auditor
Independent oversight strengthens the OpenID Foundation's conformance testing program. The OpenID Foundation is pleased to announce that the Kantara Initiative - a global community focused on improving the trustworthy use of identity and personal data - has signed a...
certSIGN and Lissi partner to accelerate EUDI Wallet rollout in Romania
Romanian qualified trust services provider certSIGN has announced a strategic partnership with German digital identity specialist Lissi to support adoption of the European Digital Identity Wallet in Romania. The collaboration combines certSIGN’s expertise in PKI-based...
AI agents to reshape connectivity and monetisation strategies at MWC Barcelona 2026
The rise of AI agents is set to transform the connectivity landscape, shifting network demands beyond human-to-human communication toward the infrastructure required to support autonomous vehicles, robotics, and machine-driven interactions. This evolution will...
CIAM authentication sessions at #IdentityWeekAmerica2026: Protecting organisational and customer security
Customer IAM helps to differentiate genuine customer onboarding experiences and combat attempts from bots and fraudsters to threaten organisational security and data. These user experiences should be hyper personalised, frictionless digital experiences that address...
FTC says companies can collect children’s data for age checks without parental consent if privacy conditions are met
Governments and regulators generally enforce strict compliance with mandatory age verification for businesses. However, the Federal Trade Commission has stated that it will not pursue certain COPPA enforcement actions when companies collect personal data solely to...
‘Best design’ New Liechtenstein passport embeds high-security features
Liechtenstein has a new passport design that went into circulation this month and even won the “Best New Passport 2026” for its high standard of security, particularly within the passport’s Polycarbonate Data Page. With increased durability, laser personalisation, and...
Reddit slapped with £14.47m penalty over children’s privacy and no age checks
Children under 13 are being allowed onto Reddit’s forums where often adult discussions take place. An investigation uncovered multiple failings to provide comprehensive age verification measures right across the platform. Whilst one technology provider partners with...
Belgian Centre for Cybersecurity reports significant phishing scams
Many phishing reports have been made to The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium in recent months. In the last quarter of last year, there were 226 reports, and 106 in January of this year. The story told by telephone scammers varies. "Sometimes they pretend to be the...
Attack path management: Why identity has become the primary security battleground
Jared Atkinson, CTO at SpecterOps For years, defenders have focused on stopping an initial breach. Firewalls, endpoint tools, and phishing controls all aimed to keep attackers out. But that model no longer reflects how most modern intrusions occur. In fact, getting...
Telefónica Tech promotes digital identity management in the insurance sector in Spain
The telecoms and insurance sectors have partnered to create a single digital identity for unified access across different companies. Telefonica Tech is strengthening cybersecurity with digital identity, as well as offering services for cloud IoT, big data and...
From login to ledger: Identity’s new role in payment trust
By Christina Hulka, Executive Director, Secure Technology Alliance Identity leaders have spent the last few years redefining what “sign-in” really means. Authentication is no longer a front-door step that happens once, then fades into the background. It is...
JFK Airport deploys EPP for biometric travel with iProov, CBP
The New Terminal One at JFK International Airport is funding a biometrics programme launching Enhanced Passenger Processing, with the support of iProov who have been selected as a leading provider in passenger identity technology. The solution has been developed in...
50% offer extended, join the Start-up City today!
The response to our January Start-up offer was incredible. To keep the momentum going, we’ve made the decision to extend our 50% discount until the end of February! As the European landscape for digital ID and biometrics evolves, there is no better place to be than...
The Deepfake Summit: Resilient trust™ in the era of AI-driven draud
Confronting AI-Driven Impersonation in the Identity Ecosystem As generative AI advances at unprecedented speed, deepfakes and synthetic identities are fundamentally altering the nature of fraud risk across financial services, fintech, government, payments, and digital...
Football legend fronts Mastercard’s seamless pay campaign
Peter Schmeichel, the former Manchester United and Denmark goalkeeper is fronting a campaign encouraging shoppers to adopt Click to Pay, a payment method that replaces passwords and long card numbers with passkeys, biometrics, and trusted devices. The campaign comes...
Michelle Wilson on building Blue Cavalry Solutions and advancing interoperable digital ID
https://youtu.be/W_aJbZ8QwyY Having mostly served federal government in her career, Michelle Wilson made the jump in May 2025 to set up Blue Cavalry Solutions. Based in Virginia, she now leads an elite consulting firm with lots of international experience in identity...
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