In the wake of the World Trade Centre attacks in the US, biometrics vendors world-wide have been caught making all sorts of promises regarding the effectiveness of their particular solutions. ZDNet Australia investigates biometrics and its ramifications.
Australian experts warn that continuing to underestimate the impact of security issues on e-business may lead to more dot-com failures, but claim these issues "will be fixed".
The old saying 'the eyes never lie' took on new currency yesterday as Siemens Business Services launched Australia's first iris recognition authentication system. However, is this case of using expensive Hollywood-style hardware to sell less-than sexy security software solutions?
Biometric-enabled ATMs could be doling out cash to Australian bank customers within a year following the launch of technology that promises to reduce the expense of converting existing ATM security infrastructure.
Overloaded with PINs, sick of passwords, and forever losing your access keys? BioID has just launched a one-step authorisation process in Australia that does away with old-style security measures and leaps into the future of biometrics. Now all you need to do is smile and say "cheese".
Overloaded with PINs, sick of passwords, and forever losing your access keys? Now all you need to do is smile and say "cheese".
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