Top biometric identifiers: Risks & rewards

This is a guest post by Dr. Asem Othman, a biometric scientist at Veridium.

While biometric identifiers offer the promise of enhanced authentication compared to prevailing norms, like passwords, their tight, and often unique, linkage to a person makes them highly valuable data to hackers. Hackers who steal, replicate or modify biometric identifiers can cause serious harm to organizations and individuals, since the biometric identifiers of an individual cannot be easily “reset” like passwords.

To further explore the potential benefits and pitfalls of different biometrics, we’re hosting a webinar on the Top Biometric Identifiers: Risks & Rewards on October 27, 2016, at 1:00pm EST. I will discuss five different biometric identifiers (single fingerprint, four fingers, voice, face, iris), their level of accuracy and usability, and the privacy and security risks associated with them.

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biometric identifiers  |  biometrics  |  facial recognition  |  fingerprint biometrics  |  iris recognition  |  mobile device  |  Veridium  |  voice recognition  |  webinar