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Why choose biometrics over conventional methods such as passwords and proximity cards?
We can now store and administer personal information and confidential business information in such technical devices as PDAs, cellular phones and PCs.
With the continuous development of computer networks, security-sensitive information, industrial and national information is being exchanged within the networking environment.
However, since digitalized information is exposed to the risks of outflow and loss, concerned people are actively searching for solutions to these problems. In response to the urgency of the situation, a number of information security technologies are being researched and developed. Among those is biometrics, a technology that stands out among all others as a highly reliable solution to information security.
What is “Biometrics” and what kind of convenience and security can it
offer us?
Biometrics refers to an automated system that can identify an individual by measuring their physical and behavioural uniqueness or patterns, and comparing it to those on record. In other words, instead of requiring personal identification cards, magnetic cards, keys or passwords, biometrics can identify fingerprints, face, iris, palm prints, signature, DNA, or retinas of an individual for easy and convenient verification.
With the boom in e-commerce and the increased need for accurate verification when accessing accounts, biometrics is the simplest and most convenient solution. Its universal, unique, permanent and measurable features ensure security of information in E-commerce, such as on-line banking and shopping. Biometrics can also provide you with convenience and security, by enabling a machine to verify the individual by itself and to respond to the individual’s requests. Through the use of such physical controls as access control, user restrictions on certain devices can be made possible with an automated verification system.
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