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Frost and Sullivan releases fingerprint best practices whitepaper

Friday, August 19, 2011

Frost and Sullivan released a white paper, A Best Practices Guide to Fingerprint Biometrics, that details challenges for identity and access management (IAM) solutions and how fingerprint biometrics can meet the needs of the industries.

The consultancies states that fingerprint biometrics provide a good solution because it provides high security and convenience for users while remaining relatively low cost.

Additionally, Frost and Sullivan sees fingerprint systems as having a strong likelihood of providing a company with a quick return on investment by removing the needs for creating or replacing physical credentials as well as retrieving lost or forgotten passwords and PINs. [end] 

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