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Ravin Sanjith, Program Director, Intelligent Authentication
As program director with Opus Research, Ravin Sanjith oversees coverage dedicated to building awareness, understanding and appreciation of accurate, affordable, usable, frictionless and scalable platforms for identity verification and intelligent authentication. Most recently, Ravin was co-founder and CEO at OneVault, a global pioneer in delivering voice biometrics solutions across the financial and telecoms sectors of Africa.
Previous to OneVault, Ravin spent five years as an intrapreneur in a range of asset finance, commercial and private leasing companies where he held various C-level positions always driving business process and technological innovation. He started his working career in 1992 as an engineer, where he applied machine sensor technologies and disparate data sources to optimize operational performance of electricity distribution networks. He then went on to two of South Africa’s largest retail banks, where he led the blueprinting of large scale ERP systems, including SAP. Additionally, Ravin worked with smaller Internet startups, most notably the creation of e-procurement hubs in the automotive sector working as COO at MotorOnLine, which was acquired by TransUnion in 2005.
Ravin possesses a blend of technical and commercial acumen, accumulated over 25 years across multitude of industries and disciplines. Inspired by disruptive thinking and emerging technologies, Ravin has pioneered many innovations in large enterprises as well as startups, with specific interest in the use of biometrics to curb ID&V enterprise and government security together with customer experience challenges.
Contact: ravin@opusresearch.net
Twitter: @RavinSanjith
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TRUSTID Enables Multifactor Call Center Authentication with Phone Network Forensics As-a-Service
The company’s new IDENTIFIER product can be deployed before or during calls, and paired with voice biometrics to create a multifactor authentication solution.
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Introducing bAIometrics: biometrics with {AI} inside
Modality-specific biometrics such as voice, finger, and facial are leveraging machine learning and deep neural networking for a far more efficient, multi-modal, context aware authentication — dare we say “bAIometrics”
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Voice Biometrics-Plus: A Six-Month Assessment
New developments and product introductions in voice-based authentication technologies reflect an acceleration in the adoption of solutions for authentication, identification and fraud reduction driven by greater capabilities and reliability.
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Beyond Credit Scoring: TransUnion and Experian Signal a Credible Alternative for Identity and Fraud Management
Moves by TransUnion and Experian in the ID&V and Fraud space demonstrate continued investment in new security technologies and modalities, and also signal time for credit bureaus to disrupt themselves through distributed architectures.
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VoiceTrust Joins SpeechXrays Project to Merge Voice Biometrics, Acoustics and Facial Recognition
With over 15 years of voice biometrics development expertise, VoiceTrust will help accelerate SpeechXray’s delivery of a full multi-channel acoustic voice recognition and dynamic face recognition platform.
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Opus Research Report: “How Voice Biometrics Benefits from Deep Neural Networks”
In this white paper, part one of a three-part Opus Research series, Ravin Sanjith discusses how the infusion of Deep Neural Networks in Voice Biometrics is powering an enhanced level of Intelligent Authentication and seamless, secure customer experience.
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Biometrics – the Good, the Bad and the Reality
As I write this piece, the theme from the movie of a similar name has me moving to the tune in my head; you know the one. As you are now also air-whistling, you are probably wondering what this has… Read More ›
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Unpacking Fourth Factor, Continuous Authentication
While concerns about surveillance are challenging brands and companies (including Facebook) to offer simple, trusted “Voice-First” services on devices, fourth-factor continuous authentication bolsters the consumer digital experience.
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DNN-Infused Behavioral Factors to Augment Classic Voice Biometrics
Nuance Communications has recently launched a new Security Suite that heralds the dawn of the next era in persistent, continuous security by leveraging deep neural networks (DNNs) and elements of artificial intelligence.
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News from Nuance, Acquisitions from Facebook, AWS Show Intelligent Authentication Poised to Surge in 2018
A flurry of January activity by likes of Nuance, Facebook, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Relx Group show the growth and promise of risk-based authentication, identity management services and Intelligent Authentication.