Samuel Jeff Carter is Chief Strategy Officer for EyeLock Corp. EyeLock is the leading iris-identity solutions company in the world. EyeLock helps governments and businesses around the world overcome the everyday challenges of identity management.

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The past year we’ve begun to witness what’s only a foretaste of a future that increasingly will be plagued by a progressively more dangerous and escalating world of asymmetric cyberwar.

Asymmetric warfare is war between combatants whose relative power differs significantly or whose strategies or tactics differ significantly.  

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Enterprise security is attracting corporate eyes – and quite literally too. IT and business consulting company Sierra Solutions is looking to upgrade the level of security for end-user organisations by integrating an innovative iris scanning system with popular enterprise solutions such as SAP and Oracle.

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(CNN) -- From scanning news headlines over the last couple of months, you might think the walls around Internet strongholds are made of rotting wood.

Yet the frequency of data breaches actually hasn't increased dramatically, according to security experts and reports compiled by nonprofit advocacy group Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

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Outsourcing computer tasks to firms that maintain huge data centers around the world may not be as safe as billed, despite the cloud's potential for cost savings and reducing the hassles of running in-house servers, security experts say.

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San Francisco (CNNMoney) -- The future is here. Just like in the movie "Minority Report," where iris recognition is used to gain access to top secret files, you'll soon be able to log in to all of your personal accounts in the blink of an eye -- literally.

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Hoyos's iris scanner: Although this product wasn't popular in the Twittersphere today, I feel there's a lot of potential for this technology, which takes a picture of the human iris and uses it to identify a customer, say for online or mobile banking. Hoyos today has a tiny USB device bankers could distribute to online banking users and it’s experimenting with using a humble mobile phone camera photo of an eyeball to authenticate mobile banking users.

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Ever since the first lock and key or digital log-in and password were created, logical security and physical security have always been two separate concepts. Technologists have searched for decades attempting to find a converged solution and narrow the gap between protecting one's identity and controlling access to physical and virtual interactions.

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Christopher BenVau, Senior VP of Stanley’s federal team, which provides access control, video surveillance and intrusion alarm systems, introduces Dr. Keith Hanna, Co-Founder and CEO of The Hoyos Group, announcing that Stanley...

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Hoyos showed its iris-recognition-on-the-go solution at ISC West last week; most iris recognition solution require the persons to be identified to stand still and stare into a panel for a couple of seconds; the Hoyos solution allows people...

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Las Vegas - In a deal that Stanley Convergent Security Solutions says will expand its expertise in serving the government and financial sector, Stanley announced on April 6 at the ISC West International Conference & Exposition...

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Stanley CSS and Hoyos to Transform Access Control and Identity Management Naperville, IL – April 11, 2011 – Stanley Convergent Security Solutions (Stanley CSS), part of Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK)...

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Las Vegas - Stanley Convergent Security Solutions (CSS) will now offer iris-based biometric product solutions, thanks to a new partnership with Hoyos Corp., a biometrics R&D firm. The companies announced the collaboration this week at ISC West.

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Las Vegas - What was new on Day 1 of ISC West 2011? As usual, there were a number of partnership announcements and a couple of acquisitions; new this year was lots of talk about physical security information management systems. PSIM announcements abounded on the show floor.

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Las Vegas, NV (April 7, 2011) -- Just off the show floor, amid the corporate meeting rooms and session tracks being held at ISC West 2011, Stanley CSS was holding a feast for your eyes -- or to be even more accurate...

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I never was more intent on watching people move in a conga line as I was yesterday at ISC West. The purpose of the conga line? The folks at Stanley Convergent Security Solutions were demonstrating the processing speed...

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US company Stanley Convergent Security Solutions (Stanley CSS) is to distribute biometric technology by the Hoyos Corporation. The partnership will deliver a suite of iris-based biometric technology product solutions to Stanley CSS’s global client base, which is part of Stanley Black and Decker.

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Stanley Convergent Security Solutions (Stanley CSS), a provider of electronic security products and services, has announced a partnership with Hoyos Corp. that may yield a new suite of iris recognition products.

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Naperville, IL (April 6, 2011)—Stanley Convergent Security Solutions (Stanley CSS), part of Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK), the second largest commercial security services company in the United States and a leading provider of advanced integrated security solutions the world over, announces its strategic partnership with Hoyos Corporation (Hoyos).

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Las Vegas - In a deal that Stanley Convergent Security Solutions says will expand its expertise in serving the government and financial sector, Stanley this morning announced a partnership with Hoyos Corporation, a provider of iris-based biometric technology product solutions.

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It may be April Fool's day when he joins, but Hoyos Group believe they have appointed anything but to their growing management team. Anthony Antolino will take on the role of Chief Marketing Officer, effective April 1, 2011, and he is being tasked with providing the ambitious company with rocket fuel for its future growth plans.

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It looks like Mexico will lead the way with iris scanning biometric security, or at least that is what has been going around the Internet recently. A tech company called Global Rainmakers Inc.(GRI) has announced their plans to provide iris scanning technology for widespread implementation in the city of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. In cooperation with Portoss, a law enforcement information systems company based in Mexico, GRI plans to install iris tracking throughout the city in an attempt to create the safest city in the world.

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Having previously looked at how biometric recognition is more than a fictional spy-thriller, we didn't look at biometric technology used in the past which seems like something out of the future. These are some of those past biometrics, followed by a few new biometric recognition technologies being proposed for everything from securing your smartphone, replacing the ID in your wallet, and even required testing to prove paternity.

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A company based in Puerto Rico wants to install iris-detection capabilities in everything from cell phones to ATMs, beefing up personalized security options in an increasingly networked world.

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If Hoyos Corp. has its way, the world will soon resemble a Tom Cruise movie. A closely held company based in Puerto Rico, Hoyos makes devices that photograph human irises for identification purposes...

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Hoyos Corporation (Hoyos) added an iris scanning device called the EyeSwipe-Nano to their suite of cutting edge identity management products. The EyeSwipe-Nano will be approximately one quarter...

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The days of fumbling for keys, magnetic cards or remembering access codes to enter buildings might soon be over now that biometric recognition is going mainstream. Biometrics are methods of identification based on physiological...

Madrid Barajas is set to host initial trials of an iris biometric system from Hoyos Corporation (formerly Global Rainmakers) and Herta Security. Jeff Carter, chief development officer at Hoyos Group...

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After hearing about the plans Hoyos has to install an iris-scanning device in Madrid’s airport, we sat down with Jeff Carter, the company's chief development officer, to talk about how the device works and how it could possibly bring a paradigm shift to airport security.  

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The company says its HBOX device can scan fifty people a minute; it is used by the Philadelphia Port Authority as well as Bank of America at lobby entry points; the company made headlines recently...

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Hoyos Corporation announced a partnership with Herta Security to implement iris scanning technology in airports in an attempt to solve airline security issues and create a secure process from check-in to boarding, says Jeff Carter, chief development officer at Hoyos.

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Global Iris Identity Leader Addresses International Airport Security Issues in Latest Partnership New York – December 14, 2010 – Hoyos Corporation (Hoyos), an intellectual property holding company...

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Puerto Rico-based intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory Hoyos Corp. announced Tuesday a partnership with Herta Security, an international consumer-oriented security solutions company, to implement iris scanning security technology in airports.

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No more parking your ugly mug on some wall-mounted device to get some eye-scanning done. EyeSwipe knows exactly who you are at a glance. Optical scanners are quite popular in film, and have not only been used in hardcore science fiction movies, but also mindless summer blockbusters. The rationale is quite simple: retinal patterns are as unique as a thumbprint. Plus, shooting laser beams across someone's face is infinitely more watchable than some guy pressing his thumb to a keypad. 

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New York - Hoyos Corp., a Puerto Rico-based biometrics R&D firm, will soon add its EyeSwipe-Nano, an iris scanning device, to its suite of identity management products. Roughly the size of a dollar bill, the scanner can capture the irises of people from a distance and in motion at a rate of 20 people per minute, according to the company. The product, which the company maintains is more accurate and secure than other access control systems, will be commercially available during the first quarter of 2011. 

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Hoyos Corporation has announced it will be adding an iris recognition system to its line of identity management product offerings. The system, called EyeSwipe-Nano, will take a footprint about the size of a dollar bill and can capture irises of people every one to three seconds.

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New York, NY – December 7, 2010 – Hoyos Corporation (Hoyos), a Puerto Rico based advanced R&D laboratory and intellectual property holding company, announced today that they will add a new iris scanning device, called the EyeSwipe-NanoTM, to their suite of cutting edge identity management products. 

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Ti riconoscono dagli occhi - Che succederebbe se noi italiani fossimo targati come automobili, riconosciuti e inquadrati ovunque da webcam in grado di impedirci o permetterci l'accesso ai negozi, l'uso del denaro, i viaggi? È uno scenario allucinante, ma non così lontano dalla realtà. È proprio ciò che si appresta a realizzare infatti il sindaco di Leon, una città messicana, avvalendosi di una multinazionale Usa e di una tecnologia rivoluzionaria che legge a distanza gli occhi delle persone. Il sistema arriverà anche in Europa?

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New York, NY – November 15, 2010 – Hoyos Corporation (Hoyos), a Puerto Rico based intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory, announced today that they have partnered with Automated Gaming Technologies (AGT), a leader in handling the bulk cash processing demands of the gaming industry, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Current security technologies “are inherently flawed and can be beaten,”says Jeff Carter, a former Bank of America executive turned chief business development officer at the biometrics firm Global Rainmakers. The fraud-fighting and identification technology of iris scanning will become commonplace 10 years from now, says Carter.“There have to be new models and they’re going to be different,”Carter tells ATM and Debit News.

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New York - Worldwide biometrics provider Global Rainmakers has secured $40 million in new funding and undergone a name change in preparation for the next phase of its growth, according to chief development officer Jeff Carter. The company has also changed it's name from Global Rainmakers to Hoyos, after it's CEO.

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New York, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoyos Corporation (Hoyos), formerly Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI), a Puerto Rico based intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory, announced today that it has secured a $40 million round of investment funding led by one of the company's primary shareholders and a private equity partner.

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The future is now in León, Mexico, which plans to become the first city to rely on iris and face-scanning technologies for everything from crime fighting to banking. The city of approximately one million citizens has contracted with Global Rainmakers, Inc.

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Authentication is the name of the game when it comes to bank security, and every advance in bank technology creates corresponding demand for security. Online payments, remote deposit capture, mobile payments, and even check and branch transactions are subject to continually-evolving fraud, and demand continually evolving security. The FutureNow List showcases the state of the art, and state of the industry, in 2010.

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Jeff Carter is either in charge of selling the most transformational technology that will come to banking, indeed to human identification, in recent memory, or he's the most delusional former banker you'll ever meet.

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Hoyos Group, a Puerto Rico based intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory, today announced the appointment of James Demitrieus as Chief Operating Officer. Demitrieus will be responsible for overseeing firm operations as it diversifies its product offering and expands global deployment.

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Hoyos, an intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory, today announced the appointment of Samuel Jeff Carter as Chief Development Officer. In addition to overseeing firm operations, Carter will be responsible for new business development and the deployment of the firm's revolutionary strategy on iris biometric security applications within mobile services and devices.

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Leon, Mexico has began implementing an iris scan biometric system from New York-based Global Rainmakers; the system, rolled out across the city, will see the eyes of anyone taking money out of an ATM, paying for items in a store, or simply catching a bus scanned by hi-tech sensors; Global Rainmaker's CEO says the company has chosen iris scan for its project because "With iris, you have over 2,000 points-- With those 2,000 points, you can create a unique 16,000 bit stream of numbers that represents every human on the planet. That provides a reference point that can connect everything you do in all aspects of life, for the first time ever"

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Global Rainmakers has partnered with Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico-based information systems company Portoss on a project intending to make Leon the most secure city in the world. The partnership will utilize iris biometrics from Global Rainmakers as the base of the security for all aspects of day-to-day life for Leon’s 1.2 million citizens. Portoss will integrate iris capability across the city, install miles of fiber optic cable and construct the central iris database with power to enlarge the scale to include private sector corporations for a variety of applications.

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Mexico's sixth-largest city, Leon, is on the road to becoming a real-world version of Minority Report, the movie and short story that envision a future in which everyone is tracked wherever they go.

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The biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced plans today to roll out iris scanning technology to create, in its own words, “the most secure city in the world.”

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We've all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's dystopian future, where the public is tracked everywhere they go, from shopping malls to work to mass transit to the privacy of their own homes. The technology is here. I've seen it myself. It's seen me, too, and scanned my irises.

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Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI), a company revolutionizing the access control and identity management market, announced today that it will provide iris technology for the secure city initiative in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. Portoss, a Leon-based company, specializes in creating information systems for the law enforcement sector. This latest partnership between Portoss and the City of Leon is envisioned to create the most secure city in the world, utilizing iris biometrics from GRI as the foundation.

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New York, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida-based Tech Imagine Inc. has selected Global Rainmakers, Inc. (GRI), an intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory, to provide cutting-edge iris biometrics technology into the existing banking security systems of their clients throughout Latin American and the Caribbean.

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Global Rainmakers, Inc. (GRI), an intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory, recently announced a channel distribution partnership with Hacousto Group, based in Holland, to market GRI's groundbreaking tokenless-biometric security offering to the Benelux region.

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Global Rainmakers, Inc., an intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory, has been awarded the prestigious Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation, in the Iris Recognition Biometric Market North America, 2009.

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