Industry source: Government’s trials of 'behavioral biometrics' for authentication taps 'valuable tool'

The Defense Information Systems Agency is broadening its efforts to bolster security by replacing traditional username and password systems with a new pilot planned with the Department of Health and Human Services, which an industry source says would reproduce a practice already being used by many companies to provide an “additional layer” of security.

It’s what some industry types call “behavioral biometrics,” Jeremy Grant, leader of the Better Identity Coalition for the law firm Venable, told Inside Cybersecurity. “This is...