Imprivata introduces new face authentication tech
Imprivata has introduced advanced face authentication technology to further expand the company’s passwordless capabilities.
The cutting-edge solution is optimised for both shared and personal devices, providing frontline workers with secure, seamless, and consistent authentication across their endpoints, applications, and workflows.
This allows organisations to eliminate password friction and drive productivity while maintaining strong identity assurance and satisfying complex regulatory requirements.
Tracey Touma, Sr is Cybersecurity Business Liaison at the Cleveland Clinic.
Touma said: “Organisations have a responsibility to manage cybersecurity in a way that effectively reduces risk while also enabling the workforce.
“Passwordless authentication is becoming an essential tool for reducing this risk without slowing down core processes, especially in fast-paced environments like healthcare, by making access frictionless, fast, and secure, allowing teams to stay focused on what really matters.”
A frictionless user experience
Unlike other solutions that require repeated enrolment, Imprivata offers centralised template management that allows users to enrol once, and then authenticate across authorised devices, applications, and workflows.
With built-in liveness detection, support for standard and embedded webcams, and optimisation for environments where clinicians or other users need to wear face masks, Imprivata enables low-friction authentication without the need for expensive specialty hardware, like infrared cameras.
This reduces user frustration, minimises IT overhead necessary to support enrolments or failed authentications, and allows frontline workers to remain focused on the task at hand.
In addition, Imprivata’s new face authentication technology and passwordless authentication capabilities are tailored for high-velocity, shared-use environments and complex workflows.
Chip Hughes, Chief Product Officer at Imprivata, said: “Our vision is to deliver seamless, passwordless access that works wherever and however clinicians and other frontline workers in mission-critical industries operate.
“Important to this vision is creating a consistent user experience, so our new capabilities will support face authentications for authorised devices—both shared and personal—as well as all applications and workflows.
“The result will be fast, frictionless access for all users to improve productivity while ensuring the highest levels of security and compliance.”
A new standard for identity assurance
In addition to user experience and workflow benefits, Imprivata’s new face authentication technology improves security and regulatory compliance.
It is designed to meet the stringent needs of highly regulated industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and the public sector, supporting frameworks such as NHS DSPT, HIPAA, NIST, CJIS, and CMMC.
With the introduction of this new capability, Imprivata continues to advance its commitment to delivering passwordless access that is fast, secure, and adaptive to every environment.
Face authentication complements the full suite of authentication methods that Imprivata offers, which includes fingerprint, FIDO-compliant tokens, mobile apps, and proximity-based Hands Free solutions, among others.
This flexibility enables organisations to achieve stronger identity assurance with less friction for users—ultimately improving workflows, reducing risk, and driving better outcomes.
