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Biometrics in the Lab |
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Source: IT Business Edge | Priority:
Aligning IT & Business Goals |
Topic: Authentication
Date Published:
9/21/2005
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With Ronen Yacobi, director of marketing & business development for Zvetco Biometrics [www.zvetcobiometrics.com]. Zvetco, along with network security solution provider Computer Consultants & Merchants, recently completed an integrated biometric subscription control system for Rutgers University that uses fingerprint readers to monitor and control use of expensive research equipment.
Question: Can you briefly explain the main organizational requirements that were met by replacing a pen-and-paper system with this new biometric system?
Yacobi: The main challenge Rutgers University faced before adopting the BSCS (Biometric Subscription Control System) was to overcome students' identity misuse. Rutgers University needed to know who exactly was using the lab equipment and for how long, so that they could accurately charge user accounts for usage. The user names and passwords that controlled the lab equipment were transferred among the students, a fact that led into extensive usage of expensive lab equipment accessed from different locations. A simple password-based access control system failed to provide the laboratory system administrator with accurate traceability and accountability for the usage of the lab equipment. The use of biometrics as the only subscriber authentication method validates the user identity with a certainty of 1:100,000 (a very low False Acceptance Rate), and provides a foundation for a very accurate system with enhanced traceability and accountability capabilities. These days, the BSCS provides the lab administrator with the ultimate authentication method to validate the equipment subscribers, trace their activities, and accurately bill them for their usage.
Question: What is the tracking, reporting and archiving system like? Is it used directly by end users in the lab environment, or managed by IT?
Yacobi: The built-in reporting mechanism of the BSCS provides the administrator alone with comprehensive management reports. These accurate reports provide one-minute resolution for the equipment usage per subscriber, facilitate an accurate billing mechanism, protect the current revenues, and generate additional revenues to Rutgers. In addition, this system is the optimal tool to trace any subscriber activity and correlate it with any system downtime. Due to the fact that the uptime of the particular lab equipment is very expensive, the ROI for the BSCS happens within a few months.
Question: What privacy challenges or concerns arose during the planning of this initiative?
Yacobi: Due to the fact that the BSCS uses highly encrypted mathematical representations of the subscribers' fingerprints, the actual fingerprint image cannot be reproduced, collected or used in any database for government/commercial usages. This fact eliminated any privacy concerns and made this solution into the optimal one for a standalone revenue protection and generation tool. (This initiative ...) is the next step towards secured mass adoption of biometric-based identity authentication and management solutions in the education industry, facilitating applications such as distance learning, online exams, online privileges, and other local and Web-based subscription applications.
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Facial Recognition Not 100 Percent
TAKEAWAY: Outside controlled environments, the chaos of life has proved an obstacle in creating effective facial recognition systems. Iris scans have proven to be reliable, but vein recognition also has been under study.
Source: The New York Times |
Priority: Fortifying Network Security |
Topic: Authentication
Date Published: 3/8/2008 |
Date Reviewed: 3/12/2008
VeCommerce Making Progess with Voice Biometrics
TAKEAWAY: At a recent bankers' conference, VeCommerce challenged delegates to try to trick its voice biometric system, but none was successful. VeCommerce says its biometric technology eliminates the need for identifiers or special equipment.
Source: iTWire |
Priority: Fortifying Network Security |
Topic: Authentication
Date Published: 3/8/2008 |
Date Reviewed: 3/12/2008
Companies Cooperate on Biometrics for Online Transactions
TAKEAWAY: Biometric security is an option that most often is used as part of a two-factor security scenario. In most cases, passwords are the other factor. Two firms, UPEK and Pay By Touch, have joined forces to offer biometrics in e-commerce scenarios. UPEK makes a fingerprint reader that is installed in laptops or connected to them via a USB. Users are required to put their finger on the reader in order to boot up or gain access to a corporate database, depending on how the system is configured. Pay By Touch offers a payment and identification service. Pay By Touch will certify UPEK sensors already in use, thereby offering authentication to individuals instead of limiting it to specific machines. At the highest level, the partnership seems poised to bring biometrics further into the mainstream by using it in e-commerce scenarios.
Source: E-Commerce Times |
Priority: Fortifying Network Security |
Topic: Authentication
Date Published: 10/9/2006 |
Date Reviewed: 10/11/2006
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