My latest Gartner blog post: "AuthN TNG: Many Factors, Confidence, and Risk Scoring"
"I've been mulling over authentication (and, to a degree, privacy) a bit the last couple weeks and wanted to toss a couple thoughts out there; especially in light of Apple's iPhone announcements this week that included revealing their Touch ID fingerprint scanner for authentication. All of this further combines with my reading Aaron Pogue's Ghost Targets series, in which he imagines a future where humanity has opted into low-privacy, high-assurance total surveillance society for the up-sides (I'll leave the privacy side of this debate for another date;). But enough caveat and preamble... let's get to the good stuff!"