Biometrics: Where do we stand?

Ruben Ramirez If we are talking acceptable liability regarding privacy, Biometrics can be a viable solution especially when using several approaches to securing the identity data (i.e. fingerprint, etc) Regarding a given biometrics system, its security and storage of Authentication data, it does not have to store the true identity data of a given person. Hashing the user’s identity data and storing the hash instead if the true data can solve the problem of an adversary successfully identifying a user from ill-gotten stored identity data. There are other ways that can be expanded on such as air-gaping, etc. The remaining question is whether or not there are enough facts that can be presented in order to gain customer acceptance for Biometrics.

Cr00zng Around While it's true that there are number of different authentication method that's available as stated, the financial implication and customer acceptance had put a dent into its utilization across the board. Certainly, the government organizations with your taxes paid can require biometric authentication; however, try to convince your company that it is the way to go.

Not to mention the fact that biometric authentication isn't 100%; all of them have false acceptance/rejection ratios that can make your end users and security administrators miserable at times. for the time being it's better to stick with "tried and true" technologies, such fobs, or RSA tokens. Most of these systems do support software tokens as well that might just be the next authentication type that will be deployed widely.

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