Like every form of technologies that are known to the humans, the innovation of the biometric technology is a boost to the secured world. Currently, these technologies and their applications are providing a means for unique recognition of the humans based on their physical or behavioral characteristics. They also provide with the advanced degrees of security than other technologies which are engaged alone. Over the past decade, the open market for biometrics solutions has broadened ominously and today, it includes the involvement of the public and private sector applications worldwide. Besides, the biometric technologies are predominantly used in the law enforcement applications, and they are still a vibrant component of these important applications.
Advancement in Security through Logical Access Control
The entire security systems are being enhanced with this emergence of the biometric technology. Logical Access Control is an application that refers to gain access to a computer system which may be in the business workspace or via a secured remote connection from a distant locality. This application has changed the basic use of traditional username and password. It also provides the organizations and its personnel to emplace long and complex passwords. This also includes the modalities based on recognition mainly the Fingerprint and the Iris. Secured identity and swift logging can be attained within seconds with this application. These applications are easy to handle and can be connected to the workspace of an organization via a USB connection, or the sensor can be fixed into the computer or wireless device itself.
Mitigating Security Weaknesses through Physical Access Entry
The invention of the Biometric technology has introduced its application on Physical Access Entry. It refers to giving an employer access of a corporation or a business access to secure infrastructure, or even a secure workspace from within. It has introduced the world with the innovation of the Smart Cards that are used to mitigate the weaknesses regarding security. Hand Geometry Recognition and Vein Pattern Recognition are used in association with the client-server model to an electromagnetic lock strike. The Physical Access Entry has a greater capacity to hold template storage. Such type of technological emergence can serve the large applications much better. It allows the efficient processing and verification of the data storing it to a central server.
Managing the Time and Attendance
Organizations and businesses, serving at any level have to keep a track on their employees depending upon the hours they have functioned. However, using manual based approaches provide a gigantic organizational annoyance. This is where the use of Biometric technology can play a vital role in Time and Attendance based applications. This technology offers centralized control and administrative operations from within one setting, and the respective tasks associated with the treating, the workforce can be fully automated. Also, the electronic recording of the entire clock in and clock out times of every employee is obtained. This resolves the issues of the definite swing in the work. The Biometric technology has eliminated the security threat modeled by the Buddy Punching. Recognitions based on the finger, hand geometry, vein pattern are being used in a time and attendance application.
Upgrading Law Implementation
The only way to strictly identify the dubious is by taking their fingerprint and circulating that image through a gigantic catalog. This approach is being satisfied by the emergence of the Biometric technology including the Automated Fingerprint Identification System, or also known as AFIS. To confirm the identity of any suspects or wanted criminals, the law enforcement organizations across all stages of the Federal Government are using this technology. This leads to transfer results of the criminal pursuits to the requesting law enforcement organizations in less than 24 hours. Dormant fingerprint images can be collected from a crime sight that can even be stored into the upgraded AFIS process called the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System or the IAFIS databases that also support the remote connectivity via a secured Wi-Fi connection.
Techniques Enhancing the Surveillance
An established baseline is needed to determine any abnormal behavior from a particular person or a large group of people. This base is created by the Biometric technology by introducing certain techniques that are positively identifying any known criminal activity. These techniques include the Overt and Covert type of surveillance, where the businesses and organizations can know that they are being observed. These surveillance techniques are used to prevent the public settings with the deployment of facial recognition. The Biometric technology enables finding an individual whose identity can be confirmed, but his/her locality is unknown through a micro or macro level surveillance. The innovation of Biometric technology has integrated the facial recognition technology with the CCTV camera upgrading the level of surveillance and security practices.
The future of Biometric technology will lead the world towards using non-contactless modalities. Further, there will be development in the common models and metrics for identity management, critical standards, and interoperability of electronic traits. The global biometrics market will surely grow at a rapid pace with the need for improved security and to mitigate the emerging instances of security breaches, identify burglary and information hacking.
-Rahul Niraj
