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Biometrics on the cusp

Monday, January 31, 2011
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Efficiency and reliability of biometric systems continue to increase, even after a few tough years brought on by radical claims from vendors, according to Richard Lazarick, chief scientist at CSC’s Global Security Solutions Identity Labs. Organizations have hesitated to deploy biometrics not because of performance issues but because of a perceived lack of standards. That problem has been solved by M1 and ISO publishing good standards that have already been proven to work.

“The barrier now is, ‘Can I convince myself that I’m going to get a return on investment’,” states Lazarick. One way that Lazarick thinks the industry will overcome this barrier is with having third-party testing, certifying claims that vendors make as well as possibly having an approval process or approved product list for biometrics. [end] 

Vision-Box, a biometrics solutions provider, has come out with an automatic border control e-gate that supports multimodal biometric authentication.

This new e-gate is a thin system that contains vb i-match, a single sourced design that is modular and flexible and can be adapted to business requirements and infrastructure constraints that would otherwise disrupt passenger flow. It has the ability to cope with industry standards such as ICAO. The e-gate supports iris, fingerprint and facial biometrics.

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Reportlinker.com has added a new report by Frost and Sullivan to its catalog that examines the global health care biometrics market. Called “Strategic Analysis of the Global Healthcare Biometrics Market,” this study looks at the technology around all types of biometric capture, including fingerprint, face, iris, hand and voice.

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DigitalPersona Inc. released a new version of its DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise software that includes facial recognition as a method for authentication.

Facial recognition can now be combined with fingerprint biometrics, passwords, PINs, proximity cards, smart cards and OATH tokens for a multi-factor authentication solution. Policy creation and enforcement works through a client’s existing Active Directory infrastructure.

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M2SYS Technology has released an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) that enables the storage, search, retrieval, processing and editing of biometric data and subject records. The new system is built on multi-modal architecture, enabling users to combine the biometric matching of a fingerprint with that of an iris, face or palm print.

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