UPEK has integrated its biometric hardware and Protector Suite software with the new Windows Biometric Framework included in Windows 7, Microsoft is demonstrating this capability at WinHEC 2008 EMERYVILLE, Calif.-UPEK®, Inc., the global leader in biometric fingerprint security solutions, today announced that it has been working closely with Microsoft Corp. to ...

Vianix announced today that it has executed an OEM License Agreement with ImageWare Systems, a leading developer of identity management solutions, providing biometric, secure credential and law enforcement technologies. Virginia Beach, Virginia (PR- Vianix announced today that it has executed an OEM License Agreement with ImageWare Systems, a leading developer of ...

GENEVA, Switzerland, - IrisGuard broke a new ground record today with its award winning Iris Expellee Tracking System (IETS) based on the resilient Iris Farm Architecture(R) (IFA) that is in operations since 2001 in the United Arab Emirates. The solution focuses on border security by inhibiting the illegal entry of ...

There are significant privacy and civil liberties concerns regarding the use of such devices that must be addressed before any widespread deployment. Briefly there are six major areas of concern: Storage. How is the data stored, centrally ...

Users may be concerned that the use of biometric authentication will increase the danger that they will find themselves targeted by ruthless criminals who are intent on gaining entry to the assets protected by the biometric. With non-biometric authentication, cards, keys, and passwords could be stolen and used by criminals without the presence of ...

If details of countermeasures employed in biometric systems are publicised, it may help attackers to avoid or defeat them. Similarly, if attackers know what countermeasures are not employed, this will help them identify potential weaknesses in the system, and direct attacks towards those weak areas. The counter-argument is that public exposure of countermeasures and ...

Many encryption algorithms are publicly available to allow cryptographers to analyse and verify the strength of the encryption. Biometric algorithms are not readily available for review and are thus an unknown factor. Biometric algorithms do not generally fulfil the same purpose as cryptographic algorithms. Rather, they represent the encoding rules for the biometric feature ...

This is a sometimes heard expression of concern about the potential misuse of biometric data stored on central databases. It refers to the threat to privacy that such centralised collections of personal data could pose if compromised. Biometric data are regarded as personal data and hence subject to the controls appropriate to personal data. ...

Biometric systems may be initially adequately secure, but become less so with passing time. This could be because critical security parameters such as threshold settings become maladjusted, or sloppy enrolment procedures lead to poor enrolment quality. Some biometric systems are self-adaptive which means that the templates are updated each time a user accesses the ...

This is related to the covert use of biometrics (see “Can my biometric be collected covertly?” previously), and to functional creep in applications. It is important to realise that authentication does not necessarily imply consent, and it is consent which is the issue of concern here. Any application could be affected though the ...

Valuable assets are traditionally protected by secrecy, typically secret passwords. Biometric features are often readily observed and do not possess equivalent secrecy. They may also be captured with varying degrees of difficulty. This is a variation on the spoofing concern. It is certainly true that the source biometric features are not secret, but the ...

There is sometimes a misapprehension that biometrics can provide absolute identification (e.g. of terrorists, criminals etc) as though the implementation of biometric systems will somehow solve the problem of a major terrorist attack. Of course biometric systems can, at best, only identify/verify individuals who have been previously enrolled. Applications can use this functionality in ...