BIOMETRICS
Biometrics is the automated method of recognizing a person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. Biometric technologies are becoming the foundation of an extensive array of highly secure identification and personal verification solutions.
Biometric technologies should be considered and evaluated giving full consideration to the following characteristics:
§ Universality: Every person should have the characteristic. People who are mute or without a fingerprint will need to be accommodated in some way.
§ Uniqueness: Generally, no two people have identical characteristics. However, identical twins are hard to distinguish.
§ Permanence: The characteristics should not vary with time. A person's face, for example, may change with age.
§ Collectibility: The characteristics must be easily collectible and measurable.
§ Performance: The method must deliver accurate results under varied environmental circumstances.
§ Acceptability: The general public must accept the sample collection routines. Nonintrusive methods are more acceptable.
§ Circumvention: The technology should be difficult to deceive.
THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BIOMETRICS. . . .
The advantages of biometrics are the person is the key so you need never remember your card or key again. Each body part is unique and Biometrics uses your unique identity to enable a purchase activate something or unlock something. Biometrics encompasses Voice, Vein, Eye, Fingerprint, Facial recognition and more.
The disadvantages are numerous however: criminals have been known to remove fingers to open biometric locks, Biometrics requires a lot of data to be kept on a person, these systems are not always reliable as human beings change over time if you are ill; eyes puffy, voice hoarse or your fingers are rough from laboring for example it maybe more difficult for the machinery to identify you accurately. Every time you use Biometrics you are being tracked by a database bringing up a range of privacy issues. The final disadvantage is the expense and technical complexity of such systems.
The disadvantages are numerous however: criminals have been known to remove fingers to open biometric locks, Biometrics requires a lot of data to be kept on a person, these systems are not always reliable as human beings change over time if you are ill; eyes puffy, voice hoarse or your fingers are rough from laboring for example it maybe more difficult for the machinery to identify you accurately. Every time you use Biometrics you are being tracked by a database bringing up a range of privacy issues. The final disadvantage is the expense and technical complexity of such systems.
Disadvantages of a biometric system.
· The finger print of those people working in Chemical industries are often affected. Therefore these companies should not use the finger print mode of authentication.
· It is found that with age, the voice of a person differs. Also when the person has flu or throat infection the voice changes or if there there are too much noise in the environment this method maynot authenticate correctly. Therefore this method of verification is not workable all the time
· For people affected with diabetes, the eyes get affected resulting in differences.
· Biometrics is an expensive security solution.
· Advantages of Biometrics :
* Increase security - Provide a convenient and low-cost additional tier of security.
* Reduce fraud by employing hard-to-forge technologies and materials. For e.g.Minimise the opportunity for ID fraud, buddy punching.
* Eliminate problems caused by lost IDs or forgotten passwords by using physiological attributes. For e.g. Prevent unauthorised use of lost, stolen or "borrowed" ID cards.
* Reduce password administration costs.
* Replace hard-to-remember passwords which may be shared or observed.
* Integrate a wide range of biometric solutions and technologies, customer applications and databases into a robust and scalable control solution for facility and network access
* Make it possible, automatically, to know WHO did WHAT, WHERE and WHEN!
* Offer significant cost savings or increasing ROI in areas such as Loss Prevention or Time & Attendance.
* Unequivocally link an individual to a transaction or event.
* Increase security - Provide a convenient and low-cost additional tier of security.
* Reduce fraud by employing hard-to-forge technologies and materials. For e.g.Minimise the opportunity for ID fraud, buddy punching.
* Eliminate problems caused by lost IDs or forgotten passwords by using physiological attributes. For e.g. Prevent unauthorised use of lost, stolen or "borrowed" ID cards.
* Reduce password administration costs.
* Replace hard-to-remember passwords which may be shared or observed.
* Integrate a wide range of biometric solutions and technologies, customer applications and databases into a robust and scalable control solution for facility and network access
* Make it possible, automatically, to know WHO did WHAT, WHERE and WHEN!
* Offer significant cost savings or increasing ROI in areas such as Loss Prevention or Time & Attendance.
* Unequivocally link an individual to a transaction or event.
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