Nicole McNamee-Wicks named Director of Biometric Cybersecurity
SUMMERLIN, Nev., Feb. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — FaceTec announced a key addition to its executive team, Nicole McNamee-Wicks, Director of Biometric Cybersecurity, as the company expands its industry-leading position in global 3D Face Verification, and digital and mobile ID markets.
Nicole joins FaceTec at a very important point in our history. She will help lead the adoption of our UR® Code protocol by federal and state governments and educate about the benefits of our 3D Liveness and 3D Face matching software, which are the state-of-the-art in digital identity verification.
Nicole’s decorated career in the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General (SSA OIG) focused on program integrity, reducing fraud, and all aspects of crime relating to identity theft. For over two decades, she conducted complex and strategically impactful investigations in areas of fraud and detection, internal and external employee violations, disability pre-effectuation and continuing disability fraud, identity fraud, and impostor detection.
A Certified Economic Crime Forensic Examiner (CECFE), Nicole is the recipient of more than 40 performance and recognition awards, including the WIFLE Outstanding Federal Law Enforcement Employee, New York State Police (NYSP) Letters of Commendation for working in the command post during the David Sweat and Richard Matt manhunt, and a Commissioner Award and other recognition for participation in the government response to the 9/11 attacks. As the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Investigative Support Division, Nicole provided country-wide guidance on agency policy and procedures, and was responsible for over 40 other tasks that included reporting to the FBI and Congress.
“Nicole joins FaceTec at a very important point in our history. She will help lead the adoption of our UR® Code protocol by federal and state governments, and educate about the benefits of our 3D Liveness and 3D Face matching software, which are the state-of-the-art in digital identity verification,” said Kevin Alan Tussy, FaceTec CEO.
As Director of Biometric Cybersecurity for FaceTec, Nicole will play a key role in helping manage the company’s next phase of deployments into major public sector identity issuing authorities, domestically and internationally.
“I am very excited to join the highly respected, talented team at FaceTec, and to have this opportunity to contribute to their important and impactful work in biometric identity verification,” said Nicole. “FaceTec’s focus on Liveness-proven biometrics and binding the legal identity to the legitimate account holder has proven to be exceptionally effective and can be implemented to prevent fraud and identity theft in countless industries. FaceTec provides users safe and secure methods to prove their identity through a software-based solution available to everyone, regardless of their device. I look forward to serving the industry and our partners to help solve their increasingly important identity-related challenges.”
About FaceTec
FaceTec is a global force in the fight against identity fraud. For use on standard, ubiquitous digital devices, FaceTec’s patented biometric security software solutions provide exceptionally secure, remote, unsupervised identity verification and authentication, ensuring that only the legitimate account owner is allowed access to their valuable or sensitive digital services, assets, and systems.
Founded in 2013, and headquartered in the U.S. with additional staff in the UK, Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, and Singapore, FaceTec is the world’s leading provider of 3D face biometric Liveness and matching software, processing well over three billion Liveness Checks annualized, protecting sensitive information in high-risk, high-value environments, including banking and finance, government, major ecommerce, global social networks, digital national IDs and mobile driver licenses, and much more.
FaceTec’s AI-driven technology employs advanced algorithms and deep learning models to accurately and securely verify, authenticate, and bind individuals to their accounts based on their unique face biometrics. FaceTec’s patented, industry-leading Certified 3D Liveness Detection and face matching, UR Codes, optical character recognition, know-your-customer, and age estimation technology anchor a secure chain of trust in the IDV process for reliable, trusted access to mobile and web applications.
FaceTec technology has been exhaustively tested against tens-of-millions of digital and physical spoof artifacts–including hi-res photos and videos, life-like masks, and mannequin heads–but also against much more sophisticated injection and bypass-type attacks, all now easily blocked. With ongoing, advanced AI development and the world’s only spoof bounty program, FaceTec continues to stay ahead of ever-changing attack methods.
For more information and business inquiries, please visit FaceTec.com. For media inquiries, please contact John Wojewidka at JohnW@FaceTec.com.
About FaceTec 3D Face Verification
FaceTec’s pioneering, patented 3D Face Biometrics are fast becoming the global standard in secure onboarding, KYC, and reverification, stopping ID fraud and unauthorized access for millions of users on six continents.
FaceTec’s 3D Face Verification Platform features:
100% data-sovereign, customer-run software: no user data is sent to FaceTecWorld-leading 3D Face Matching rate at 1-in-125 million FAR at less-than-1% FRRPatented UI generates data-rich 3D FaceMaps® from standard 2D camerasWorld’s-first UR® Codes enable secure, low-cost two-party identity verification$600,000 Spoof Bounty Program and Level 1&2 Certified 3D Liveness DetectionUnphishable 3D FaceMaps ensure trust without creating honeypotsSupport for all modern smartphones, tablets, and PCs with webcamsKYC/IDV Dashboard with integrated 1-to-N de-duplication to catch fraudstersWorld-leading 1-in-2 million FAR 3D FaceMap-to-2D-photo-ID matchingAnonymous, better-than-human 3D age estimation and 3D age checksFast, intuitive interface with 98-99% first-time-user success ratesEasy to integrate, customize, deploy, and manage
Developers can download FaceTec’s demo apps directly from FaceTec.com for iOS, Android, and any modern browser, and the developer SDKs are available free at dev.facetec.com.
About UR® Codes
FaceTec’s UR Codes allow codeholders to prove with high confidence their legal identity, age, and the right to access their accounts or privileges, in-person and remotely. UR Codes have embedded within them digitally-bound biometric and legal identity information that ensures privacy-preserving, decentralized identity verification. As they store unique, signed face data, personal info, and legal identity data, UR Codes enable secure, low-cost, two-party identity verification at unlimited scale in any identity-related scenario from any issuing authority, such as a DMV, passport issuer, school, or employer. For more information visit the following resources:
An introduction to UR CodesThe UR Encoder DemoUR Code Scan+Match Apps are Available on iOS and AndroidLearn more at URCodes.com
About Liveness.com
Liveness.com is an educational resource for biometrics users, vendors, analysts, media, and regulators, providing a comprehensive history of Level 1-5 Presentation Attack Detection, Template Tampering, and Camera Bypasses, as well as explanations of methods and means for evaluation, certification testing, and bounty programs.
Media Contact
John Wojeiwdka, FaceTec, Inc., 1.415.997.9235, JohnW@FaceTec.com, FaceTec.com
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