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COVID-19 has accelerated the shift to digital, creating a boom in biometric adoption. Biometric deployment isn't without challenges.
With so many people making their way into an office building on any given day - whether as a prospective job candidate, a vendor with a delivery, or for a client meeting - it is vital that today's visitor and employee management systems are prepared to keep the grounds safe from unwanted visitors, including COVID-19. Demand grew almost overnight for fast, touchless visitor management systems that could do more to keep people safe.
ID R&D announced that its passive facial liveness detection product, IDLive Face, now runs on the NVIDIA Jetson XavierNX. The small form factor system-on-module supports multiple AI neural networks running in parallel and trillions of operations per second, resulting in faster processing and lower hardware costs when deploying face biometrics with liveness detection on embedded IoT and edge computing systems. Support for IDLive Face on Jetson Xavier NX mitigates size, power, and cost constraints that have limited the ability to deploy and scale face biometrics in standalone devices.
India's National Health Authority has commenced a pilot of facial recognition software as a means of identifying people as they queue in the nation's COVID-19 vaccine centres. The reason for using facial biometrics is simple: fingerprints or eyeball scans require touching equipment and getting close to machinery, both risky activities during the pandemic.
If you'd rather not have to enter your password every time you open the Bitwarden password manager on your mobile device, Jack Wallen shows you how to enable biometric login.
Samsung Electronics, Mastercard, Samsung Card, have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a biometric card that features a built-in fingerprint scanner to authorize transactions securely at in-store payment terminals. The biometric authentication capability allows safer interactions with reduced physical contact points by eliminating the need to enter a PIN on a keypad. It also adds an extra layer of security to currently available credit cards by verifying the cardholder's identity via a unique fingerprint.
Fime has extended its portfolio of biometric consultancy and testing services to its Taiwan laboratory. Now accredited by the FIDO Alliance Biometric Component Certification Program, Fime is supporting APAC device manufacturers, and biometric component and software providers, with local services.
If you'd rather not have to enter your password every time you open the Bitwarden password manager on your mobile device, Jack Wallen shows you how to enable biometric login. Bitwarden is an open source option that does an outstanding job of keeping your passwords locked away and does so with a user interface that is easy enough for any user, regardless of experience.
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.
Mastercard has teamed up with IDEMIA and MatchMove on their first pilot in Asia of a biometric card that uses a fingerprint to authorize transactions at in-store payment terminals. Developed by IDEMIA in accordance with Mastercard's technical and design specifications, F.CODE Easy ensures privacy and security by storing all biometric credentials on the card chip rather than a central database.