200 days the average to ID cyber-attacks

Advanced cyber threats are the most serious security challenge retail organisations face. Despite these concerns, retailers struggle to identify attacks once within the network, according to a new Ponemon Institute Survey, sponsored by Arbor Networks. Known as “dwell” time, the time it takes to identify these attacks is, on average, 197 days for retail organisations. Despite this, 71% of the retail organisations surveyed said they are not optimistic about their ability to improve these results in the coming year.

Understanding biometric identification

Biometrics refers to the identification of humans using their physical characteristics such as fingerprints, face recognition, DNA, palm print, hand geometry, iris recognition, retina and so on. It allows specialists to identify an individual in a far more secure...

Handheld mobile identification from Ideco

Ideco, an established leader in the application of biometric technology and southern Africa’s primary distributor of Morpho fingerprint biometric solutions, has released the MorphoIDent handheld mobile identification solution to help strengthen law enforcement. The...

Biometrics leads in commercial security

For companies, knowing who a person is, where they are on the premises and why they are there – and validating this information – is the main driver behind security and biometric access control technology integration in the workplace. To this end,...