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There’s usually an inverse relationship between enterprise security and end user convenience. When you tighten security, it often means more hoops for users to jump through – more complex passwords to remember, more sign-ons to endure, more tokens or cards to carry. That’s when you end up with passwords on Post-its, completely defeating your attempts at stronger security.
Forget all that. Biometrics as a means of authentication has gotten so reliable and easy to implement that it is now a mainstream enterprise technology. This week I attended the Digital Identity Showcase hosted by UPEK and Pay By Touch, and I was able to put my finger on some interesting biometric solutions that are both convenient for the end user and highly secure.
UPEK is the developer of the biometric technology that uses a fingerprint to identify an individual. Pay By Touch is a partner company that has embedded UPEK’s technology into devices used in retail settings. In today’s article, I’ll focus on the state of the technology and next week, I’ll cover some of the myriad uses, including the Pay By Touch solution and several others.
Up until about a decade ago, fingerprint scanning technology was based on optics. This meant the scanners were large and the results of a scan were sometimes distorted, making the use of a solution based on optical scanning somewhat clumsy and unreliable. In the late 1990’s, a real breakthrough in technology took place. Silicon chip companies began to explore capturing fingerprint images on silicon. This technology uses capacitive sensing instead of light (optics), yielding high resolution and density in a fingerprint scan and resulting in a much more reliable and accurate identification of the individual. In addition, the size of the scanners shrunk to something small enough to fit on a cell phone or a USB thumb drive, and that’s where we are today.
Most if not all major notebook PC manufacturers now have models with embedded fingerprint scanners. Gateway, Dell, Toshiba, ASUS and Lenovo all use UPEK’s technology to add another layer of security to their notebooks, or to replace passwords all together.
NIST (National Institute ofBy Anonymous on June 28, 2007, 6:40 pmNIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has plentiful numbers on relevant statistics - for fingerprints the data is decades old and systems just keep...
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Show me the (biometric) mathBy Greg Faust on June 26, 2007, 3:30 pmStatistic don't lie, but liars use statistics? I can use numbers make a five digit PIN look like child's play - or practically impervious. It all depends on what...
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Authoriziation, Identification, Authentication - and BiometricsBy Greg Faust on June 26, 2007, 3:15 pmRole confusion and silly semantics reign supreme in the world of IT security. Each function - who is Authorized to use a resource, who is Identified as the user,...
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Show me the mathBy Paul Dodd on June 26, 2007, 11:10 amIt's easy to say "biometrics are secure" but where is the math to explain how secure? With regular passwords, digital certificates, and one-time passwords we can...
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Time to separate identification and authenticationBy Anonymous on June 25, 2007, 9:42 pmI think the two things should be seperated: identification and authentication. Re: Biometrics make user authentication convenient and secure – at the same time! Fingerprint...
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