Security News > 2021 > September > Your voiceprint could be your new password as companies look to increase security for remote workers
As working from home moves from a temporary solution to the new normal, companies need new ways to secure data and protect internal networks.
Some banking customers are using the security check within an app to verify banking transactions, such as wire transfers of large amounts of money.
Ant Allan, a Gartner Research vice president, said biometrics are widely used in banking as a replacement for a password or other kind of knowledge for customer authentication in mobile banking apps.
Marchand has also seen companies lock customer files with the customer's voiceprint to make sure no one is accessing the account after business hours or taking notes on a particular file.
Demographic bias is another factor to consider when implementing biometric security methods, Allan said.
"A biometric method that cannot discriminate between a live subject and a facsimile provides little security value, however accurate it is," he said.