For technology leaders responsible for identity, risk and trust, understanding the types of attacks biometric systems face (and how to defend against them) is imperative.

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling ...

Biometrics technologies such as fingerprint scanners, palm vein readers, facial recognition tech, iris scanners and others, have long held promise to tighten up identification of patients and ...

Biometric systems are increasingly being leveraged across the nation for homeland security missions and the security of U.S. citizens. With this increased implementation, the U.S. Department of ...

The history of behavioral biometrics -- the measurement of patterns relating to human activity -- goes back to the 1860s, with the invention of the telegraph. As telegraph operators got more ...

Biometric identification is a foundational part of the United States’ immigration and transportation systems — a quick and, by many measures, secure and fraud-deterring way to confirm individuals’ ...

(Editor's note: In this guest essay, Dave Aitel, CEO of penetration testing firm Immunity Inc., points out two shortcomings with using biometric sensors as a replacement for old-fashioned passwords.) ...

Universities are under immense stress every day. Their teams are saddled with the heavy responsibility of protecting students, staff members, and visitors while maintaining an efficient workflow and ...

Millions of travelers cross the European Union’s (EU) external borders every year and their numbers will likely increase even further. Border checks will need to undergo significant transformations in ...

Fingerprints, your voice, your face, the pattern of veins in the palm of your hand and even the colored pattern in your iris: All of these are being used in biometrics, the analysis of unique physical ...

Passwords get hacked — a lot. In an effort to move beyond passwords, big companies are embracing biometric technology: the use of fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition for user identification.