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 ...

Among the inventors is Teresa Wu, VP of smart credentials at Idemia Public Security, and frequent speaker on the state of ...

While biometric access control may be more commonly implemented in government facilities and high-end applications, the reality is that in addition to these traditional users, many more adopters are ...

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 ...

With enterprises constantly on the lookout for better security, biometrics is increasingly seen as a better alternative for authenticating digital identities than outdated authentication methods such ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley recently introduced legislation that would ban government agencies from using facial recognition technology, claiming that it ...

Overview: Biometrics reduce fraud risks but cannot fully eliminate identity theft in digital systems.Multi-factor authentication and real-time monitoring streng ...

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 ...

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, ...