Online Biometric Applications
Biometric authentication can be integrated into virtually any website.
You can authenticate the identity of your users based on who they are (biometric), not simply what they know (password). Passwords are currently the primary means of ensuring security and providing access to online applications. However, the vulnerabilities of passwords are well known and the resulting attacks – insider and external – are often the source of news headlines around the world. As a result, Internet security and privacy are two of the most important issues facing businesses today.
With online biometric recognition you can replace vulnerable passwords with stronger, auditable fingerprint authentication that can help your business adhere to FFIEC regulations and other legislated privacy and security requirements such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley and USA PATRIOT Act.
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Security & Convenience
By bringing fingerprint authentication to the web any online application can benefit from this solution allowing you to provide heightened security to your customers, partners and employees. -
Differentiate Your Service
Many companies have made significant security investments to protect their networks from outside attacks, yet readily accessible Internet applications and services are secured by only a user ID and a password. As a security mechanism this is a poor proxy for user identity and is vulnerable to social engineering and brute force attacks. Passwords are the most visible form of security yet remain the weakest link in the entire Internet security chain. Online biometric recognition allows you to differentiate and extend your services by creating a high level of user confidence that can only be achieved through strong authentication methods based on verifiable user identity.
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Reduced Support Costs
Adding online fingerprint authentication produces measurable financial benefits and a rapid return-on- investment (ROI). By removing the need for your users to remember passwords you never have to worry about resetting those passwords or fielding the many support calls for lost or forgotten passwords. The results are clear – dramatically increased customer and partner satisfaction; increased employee uptime; and reduced help desk and support costs. -
Privacy by Design
Online biometric recognition is designed from the ground up to protect the privacy of the users’ biometric data. Systems provide a secure infrastructure for transferring authentication information using a combination of encryption, digital certificates and PKI. These systems use fingerprint templates; this means that fingerprint images are never stored and cannot be recreated from original templates. Furthermore, the architecture supports the encryption and complete isolation of user templates from any other individually identifiable data. This provides the ultimate in privacy and protection for you and your users. -
Works with any Internet Application
Whatever your architecture, online biometric recognition will seamlessly integrate with your systems. Integration with Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS X server-based operating systems; multiple web servers and all the major commercial database environments will enable you to provide secure and trusted authentication services for your users.
