Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed its acquisition of Arismore, a privately held company in France that specializes in providing security services, including identity and access management (IAM), as well as enterprise architecture, change management and related training services. The acquisition, first announced on December 19, 2016, brings to Accenture complementary security solutions and services, a strong client base and a talented team of 270 highly skilled security and enterprise architecture professionals.

SailPoint, the undisputed leader in identity governance, surveyed customers and attendees at this week’s Gartner IAM Summit about their plans for cloud adoption in the next five years. Of the 100 survey respondents, 30 percent plan to transition more of their mission-critical applications to the cloud in the next two years, and a full 50 percent indicated that they will take a cloud-first approach for all IT purchases by 2021.

Brits are nearly twice as likely to trust banks to store and keep safe their biometric information as they are to trust government agencies, according to a survey from Visa.

February 10, 2016 - 2015 was the year current account fraud surged and new figures show it is still the most targeted financial product.

October 20, 2015 - Early Warning, a leader in fraud prevention and risk management, today introduced the Authentify Platform.

May 15, 2015 - The Biometrics Institute, Mobey Forum and Natural Security Alliance today announce a cross-association collaboration to promote the use of biometrics in digital services, together with details of its inaugural meeting, on biometrics for non-government services, held in Paris on the 1st July 2015.

April 15, 2015 - Early Warning, a trusted leader in fraud prevention and risk management, announced today a strategic alliance with BioCatch, a global leader in behavioral biometrics, authentication and malware detection.