Are Biometrics Keeping You Safe?
Are Biometrics Keeping You Safe?
Are Biometrics Keeping You Safe?
Biometrics allows a person to be identified and authenticated based on recognizable and verifiable data, unique and specific.
Biometric authentication
Biometric authentication compares data for the person’s characteristics to that person’s biometric “template” to determine resemblance.
· The reference model is first stored.
· The data stored is then compared to the person’s biometric data to be authenticated.
In this mode, the question is: “Are you indeed, Mr or Mrs. X?”
Biometric identification
Biometric identification consists of determining the identity of a person.
· The aim is to capture an item of biometric data from this person. It can be a photo of their face, a record of their voice, or an image of their fingerprint.
· This data is then compared to the biometric data of several other persons kept in a database.
In this mode, the question is a simple one: “Who are you?”
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Biometrics: trends
Faced with document fraud and identity theft, terrorism and cybercrime, international regulation changes, new biometric security solutions are being implemented.
Biometrics can be defined as the most practical means of identifying and authenticating individuals in a reliable and fast way through unique biological characteristics.
Of course, increased public acceptance, massive accuracy gains, a rich offer, and falling prices of sensors, IP cameras, and software make it all the easier to install biometric systems.
Today, many applications make use of this technology.
Physiological measurements are usually offering the benefit of remaining more stable throughout the life of an individual.
Identity and biometrics
There are three possible ways of proving one’s identity:
1. Using something you have. This method is relatively easy to do, whether by using the key to one’s vehicle, a document, a card, or a badge.
2. Utilizing something you know, a name, a secret, or a password.
3. Through what you are, your fingerprint, your hand, your face.
The use of biometrics has many benefits.
The leading one is the level of security and accuracy* that it guarantees. In contrast to passwords, badges, or documents, biometric data cannot be forgotten, exchanged, stolen, or forged.