Category Archives: security

At the start of January I went to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. It is quite unlike any trade-show I’ve ever been to before. It fills all the halls of the Las Vegas convention center plus a … Continue reading →

There was a reason I wrote about biometrics trecently. I have a new job as COO (and VP marketing) at Biogy, which is a biometrics company. Already I’ve become a biometrics bore. But that means I don’t really have time … Continue reading →

I was at a biometrics conference in Florida the week before last. The state of the art is much more advanced than I realized in many areas. For example, iris recognition can be done at a distance of a couple … Continue reading →

What are biometrics? It is authenticating people by some aspect of their body, typically fingerprints (or finger vein), iris scan or voice recognition. I think that it will become much more important in the coming years since it offers a … Continue reading →

I’m amazed how much bad practice there is around security. People just aren’t very good at it, and sometimes don’t even realize that there is a security issue to worry about. It is not just that people aren’t good at … Continue reading →

If you get senior enough in any company then you’ll eventually have salespeople reporting to you. Of course if you are a salesperson yourself this won’t cause you too much problem; instead, you’ll have problems when an engineering organization reports … Continue reading →

I have been doing some work recently with a biometric mobile payment startup. So I went to a VCtaskforce meeting last week about mobile payments. I learned some new stuff to go along with what I already knew. The first … Continue reading →