Security News > 2020 > November > Why biometrics will not fix all your authentication woes

In recent years biometrics have increasingly been lauded as a superior authentication solution to passwords.

With a detailed enough representation of a biometric marker, it's possible to spoof it and, with the rise of deep-fake technology, it will become even easier to spoof biometrics.

While biometrics are commonplace in smart devices, this is not the case with many desktop or laptop computers, which still don't include biometric readers.

The most widespread consumer-oriented biometric authentication approaches are essentially client-side only - acting as a key that unlocks a locally stored set of authentication credentials for the target application or service.

The possibility of changes to users' biometrics is another potential issue, especially in the case where biometric authentication is the only authentication method in use and there is no fallback available.

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