Do you remember the first time you saw biometric technology? Was it in an early “Star Trek” episode or maybe in “2001: A Space Odyssey?” Have you noticed the biometrics used in recent movies like “Dredd,” “District 9,” or “Ex Machina?” Biometrics have long been used in science fiction movies to portray a futuristic world […]
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Introduction Data breaches in banking have become commonplace all over the world. Most banks and financial institutions continue to rely on historical password based security systems which are increasingly susceptible to cyber breaches and no longer able to reliably secure data or to prevent bank fraud. Continuous data breaches in the banking industry clearly demonstrates […]
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The following guest post was submitted by Katrina Manning of Build Niche Links. Should biometric technology be monitored? To answer this, one must analyze the biometric system. To start with, what is biometrics? Biometrics is the analysis and measurement of people’s unique physical and behavioral characteristics. It’s mainly used for identification, verification and access control. […]
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We recently conducted a Twitter poll: “What is considered to be the most accurate biometric modality among the following options?” We received a large number of responses from our community reflecting the following results: 58% chose iris recognition 32% chose fingerprint Palm vein and facial recognition both got 5% of the votes It’s interesting that […]
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If you haven’t heard the news, more banks are adopting biometric technology for customer authentication to increase security. Banks all around the world have been searching for more advanced technologies such as biometrics for better protection against identity theft, fraud, and cyber-crime often perpetuated by stolen customer identities. Biometrics acts as a strong authentication tool […]
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As biometric technology deployments continue to spread around the world, we are witnessing a historic shift change in how individuals identify themselves in a variety of settings. We are entering a digital era where the use of passwords to provide access to and security for a host of services has become intertwined in everyone’s lives. […]
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Over the years, we have seen steady upward growth of biometric technology across the globe for myriad reasons but mostly due to the fact that personal identification and authentication is considered more and more important. From border and immigration control to identifying criminals to time and attendance in workforce management, the practical uses of biometrics […]
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The rise in security breaches and the increase in sophisticated hacking attacks of sensitive information has raised demand for a stronger and more secure Single Sign-On (SSO) for information access. Due to the fact that password-cracking techniques are increasing in sophistication, there is a strong need to implement more sophisticated single sign-on methods. Many are […]
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Biometrics in Banking The rising demand to more effectively secure online and mobile banking and financial services transactions through accurate customer identification to prevent identity theft and banking fraud has sparked an interest in the use of biometric identification technology. Biometric identification solutions provide quick and accurate customer authentication by using unique physiological characteristics (who […]
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Fingerprint vs Vascular biometrics – Are they different? In biometrics, fingerprint technology is by far the most popular and widely used modality. However, due to the evolving nature of the technology, many other biometric modalities have emerged such as vascular biometrics. Even though they both share parts of the hand for identification purposes, these biometric […]
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Finger vein |
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