The move comes amid an expanding market for cloud-based services. Acuity Market Intelligence, which predicted the grand sweep of the mobile biometrics revolution, recently predicted that cloud-based biometric transactions will account for 70 percent of the 1.4 trillian mobile biometric transactions anticipated for 2022, reflecting considerable growth in cloud-based services.

One trend that already appears to be well underway is “Organizations embracing the benefits of the cloud”. With Acuity Market Intelligence having recently predicted massive growth in cloud-based biometric transactions, and Entrust Datacard having just joined the Cloud Security Alliance, it’s clear that others in the digital identity industry are also anticipating considerable rates of adoption for cloud services in the year to come.

Acuity Market Intelligence and its Principal Analyst, Maxine Most, were among the earliest industry experts to predict the full extent of the mobile biometrics revolution, and they have kept on the ball over the past year.

According to recent research from Acuity Market Intelligence, use of automated border control kiosks has increased by 71 percent CAGR over the last four years.

More than 5.5 billion biometrically-enabled mobile devices will create a global platform that supports one trillion cloud-based biometric transactions annually by 2022, according to new research from Acuity.