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The adoption of biometrics is on the rise. Here you'll find news about the technology including adoption, privacy and security implications and emerging policy and regulation. Image credit: Flickr.

Home Office security regulator pilots biometrics

Home Office security regulator pilots biometrics

A security regulations body in the Home Office is piloting the use of biometrics to authenticate 100 of its staff.
Dan Ilett Apr 15 2004 12:07PM Security
Biometrics: Finding a niche at last

Biometrics: Finding a niche at last

As deployment of biometric technology becomes widespread, Illena Armstrong wonders if the interest is truly genuine.
Illena Armstrong Jan 13 2004 10:17AM Security
Biometrics - Problem or Solution?

Biometrics - Problem or Solution?

Biometrics is a security approach that offers great promise, but also presents users and implementers with a number of practical problems.
Steve Mathews Jan 12 2004 3:32PM Security
Biometrics that turn cons into pros

Biometrics that turn cons into pros

Anytime a new product is coined as ‘high-tech’, it also bears the weight of being ‘high-maintenance’.
Brooke Brown Jan 9 2004 4:58PM Security
Biometrics (2003)

Biometrics (2003)

Biometric technology has met with misunderstanding in the past, but its benefits are becoming integrated into mainstream security. By Julian Ashbourn.
Staff Writers Sep 1 2003 12:00AM Security
Review: VME BioDrive

Review: VME BioDrive

An ingenious little device from Meganet Corporation to enable secure portable data storage, the USB token incorporates a fingerprint biometric sensor and a simple interface of 3 LEDs to inform the user of status.
Julian Ashbourn Sep 1 2003 12:00AM Security
Review: NEC TouchPass

Review: NEC TouchPass

The NEC TouchPass system will appeal to systems administrators looking to integrate biometric verification into the organizational network access security routines.
Julian Ashbourn Sep 1 2003 12:00AM Security
Review: SafeGuard Biometrics

Review: SafeGuard Biometrics

The SafeGuard Biometrics product is straightforward in concept and execution, making use of smartcard and biometric technology to provide strong identity verification for workstation and network access, as well as making the same functionality available to other services such as email clients and the use of certificates.
Julian Ashbourn Sep 1 2003 12:00AM Security
Review: SystemsGuard KB

Review: SystemsGuard KB

Guardware produces a variety of innovative products, all of which have been well received. It was interesting, therefore, to see a keyboard product with integral fingerprint reader from this Hungarian company (although the keyboard is actually made in China).
Julian Ashbourn Sep 1 2003 12:00AM Security
Review: U.are.U Pro for Active Directory

Review: U.are.U Pro for Active Directory

The U.are.U Pro for Active Directory from Digital Persona is, as its name suggests, a product to bring biometric identity verification to a Windows Active Directory environment (including Windows Server 2003). It may be fully integrated at server level or used on a standalone workstation.
Julian Ashbourn Sep 1 2003 12:00AM Security

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