Effective IT security is in high demand, and a large variety of industries such as banking, government, education, health care and the military view biometrics solutions as a key part of the solution.

Biometric security devices — which authenticate a person’s identity on the basis of physical characteristics, such as a fingerprint — have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But ...

Although it wasn't called biometrics at the time, a rudimentary form of the technology emerged in 1901 when Scotland Yard adopted fingerprint classification to identify criminal suspects. The ...

For issuers, biometrics offer an opportunity to reduce fraud losses and operational costs. They can deliver a higher level of ...

As biometric adoption continues to increase, it's crucial to understand how to implement a large-scale biometric deployment for access control. The global adoption of biometric technology in access ...

If your workplace uses a fingerprint to clock employees in and out, facial recognition to unlock a door, or an iris scan to ...

I use biometric authentication whenever it’s available on my devices. It’s fast, convenient, and avoids some of the biggest problems about remembering or managing passwords.

Homeland security applications, especially those used in our nation’s border control, provide an ideal example of how to implement biometrics in a way that builds and maintains the public’s support ...

The results are in. And as it turns out, despite the naysayers, Americans are happy about the use of biometric security measures at airports. The U.S. Travel Association, in conjunction with Ipsos, ...

Samsung has revealed what it calls the "industry's first" all-in-one fingerprint security chip (IC) for payment cards. The S3B512C chip reads biometric information via a fingerprint sensor, stores and ...

When many of us think of biometrics, we think of fingerprints or facial recognition systems that analyze faces from photos or videos and match them to sets of previously acquired data. However, ...

Lena Abdelahad has been with HID since 2006, where she has held various commercial and operational roles. Currently, she leads the Biometric Identity Technologies business area, overseeing a wide ...