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BehavioSec CEO on Slashdot

Slashdot’s Tim Lord talks to BehavioSec CEO Dr. Neil Costigan at RSA 2013. Check out the full video + transcript here.

BBC News on biometrics

Tim Bowler of BBC News talks to PayPal and BehavioSec on biometric security and how these systems monitor our behaviour, voice or fingerprints. In Sweden, behavioural biometrics firm BehavioSec has developed a system, which is already in use in Swedish banks, that focuses on how we behave on our computer or mobile. “We can capture the [...]

Forbes on BehavioSec in Fintech Innovations Lab

Understanding money center banks Olov Renberg is co-founder and COO of Stockholm’s BehavioSec which can verify a person’s identity by the way he types in a password, the way he moves a mouse movements or even by his swipe on a smartphone. DARPA calls it continuous authentication — the system can tell if an unauthorized [...]

BehavioSec and HID Global partnership announced

BehavioSec is partnering up with HID Global to Add New Layer of Protection to Fraud Detection System. To read more about the joint offering please look at HID 4TRESS Authentication Server integration. HID Global and BehavioSec Join Forces to Add New Layer of Protection to Fraud Detection System News Highlights: • HID Global’s 4TRESS Authentication Server [...]

BehavioSec SC Awards 2013

BehavioSec have been selected by SC Magazine as Industry Innovators: Access Control. “We found this to be a real poster company for innovation because BehavioSec has taken a core concept that has not been executed well and, through creative thinking and very good market understanding, built upon the concept. The result is keystroke dynamics done [...]

BehavioSec in Samsung apps

BehavioSec and Samsung have collaborated on an App to help with the increasing security issues associated with the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend.  With BehavioAppGuard your phone can stay secure even in the hands of others. It provides an excellent opportunity to try out our behavioral biometric technology and still protect your most valuable device. [...]

DARPA and BehavioSec go beyond passwords

BehavioSec has been selected by the leading US military research organization, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), to help them create the next generation of IT security which moves beyond todays password centric IT security. We here at BehavioSec  wanted to let you know about a recent project we started with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research [...]

Best of Show @ Finovate

BehavioSec voted best in show at Finovate Spring in San Francisco     After a killer demo of BehavioMobile (video link), our behavioral biometric solution for financial applications to enhance e.g. PIN code entry, BehavioSec got voted best in show at Finovate Spring in San Francisco. After seeing 63 demos over two packed days, the audience [...]

Finovate Spring 2012 Winner ‘Best of Show’

BehavioSec is delighted to be named ‘best of show’ at Finovate 2012 in San Francisco  After a killer demo of BehavioMobile (see embedded video below), our behavioral biometric solution for financial applications to enhance e.g. PIN code entry, BehavioSec got voted best in show at Finovate Spring in San Francisco. After seeing 63 demos over two [...]

Gartner Cool Vendor

BehavioSec today announced that it has been chosen as one of the “Cool Vendors” in Identity Access Management, 2012 report by Gartner, Inc. BehavioSec, the leading Behavioral biometrics company, today announced that it has been chosen as one of the “Cool Vendors in Security: Identity and Access Management, 2012 report by Gartner, Inc. The report details [...]

DARPA’s Active Authentication initiative

Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, famous for creating inter-networking that became the Internet, have generated a lot of buzz in the area of Behaviometrics and Continuous Authentication which BehavioSec have been advocating since we started. The story has been picked up by the New York times, Mashable, ars technica among others, and kick-started some interesting [...]

BehavioSec in Huffpost

The Huffington Post has written an article on Biometrics and how it will replace passwords in the next five years. BehavioSec is included as a potential technology. “It’s not just fingerprints, DNA and retinas anymore; the way you walk is unique and so is the way you type, for example.” Read the full article here  

Spin-off company of the year

BehavioSec was rewarded as “this year´s spin-off” from Luleå University of Technology. The research idea was founded by students from various disciplines at Ltu. The Award “2011 spin-off” that was initiated by the DARE project, was given by Professor Håkan Ylinenpää at ETS ending a week to promote Entrepreneurship. Read the news at Luleå University [...]

Behaviosec CTO speaking at RSA China

The agenda for the RSA Conference China 2011 Information Security Forum is confirmed. With 22 domestic and international security heavyweight guests that will then attend BehavioSec are honoured to have received a speaking slot. The RSA Security Conference 2011 International Forum will be held November 2 to 3 in Beijing.   Neil Costigan, BehavioSec CTO will speak [...]

Mobile demonstration videos & demo apps

We at BehavioSec are showing the answer to the mobile security problem in these short videos. See the award winning pitch with Behavio Mobile at Finovate spring 2012. The video cannot be loaded as your browser does not support JavaScript. It’s no longer sufficient to enter the correct PIN or pattern, it has to be [...]

BehavioSec nominated for security awards

BehavioSec has been nominated in the IT security solution of the Year category inSecurity Awards, held by the Swedish industry periodical Skydd & Säkerhet. BehavioSec have been nominated in this category as the jury see the potential in its ability to identify users via how the keyboard and mouse are handled, thereby adding a new layer [...]

BehavioSec in Security Vibes

During InfoSec securityvibes.fr did an article about our company. Read it here (External link is in French)

Behavio Web in 451 analysis

BehavioSec re-architects for the browser, makes antifraud play.  Is a Market Development report written by the 451 group analyst Steve Coplan. It gives the reader an understanding of the new web product line as well as insights to the impact it will have on the market place. Access the full report here (reading the report requires the [...]

SWIFT/Innotribe start-up challenge at Sibos

BehavioSec has been selected to participate at Sibos 2010 in Amsterdam 28 October. Listen to our pitch at the Start-Up competition, between 12:30 – 14:00 in the interactive workspace. The best start-ups and ideas from various 2010 events are brought together in this “dragon’s den”. In front of the audience and a panel of judges the [...]

Pitch Slam Stockholm

BehavioSec was runner up in the Pitch Slam event taking place at Microsoft Sweden. http://www.cwrichmond.tv/Global/story.asp?S=12587344 We like to thank Microsoft and Guidewire group for hosting the event and the judges for putting us top three out of 300 companies. We like to congratulate the winners and hopefully we will take first prize the next time.

Press: Behavio for managers that leave their computer unattended

BehavioSec was interviewed by Metro Teknik one of Sweden’s largest newspapers. BehavioSec is a technology that could protect in the instance of leaving a computer unattended. The article was included in a series about corporate data theft and how you can protect your data from leaking out. In the article they estimate that 79 percent [...]