As organizations become more and more digitally connected, concerns about secure access seem to loom larger than ever. With more users connecting to more resources, how can organizations ensure people requesting access are who they say they are?
As the digital risks associated with identity access and management continue to evolve, I’ve found myself bombarded with questions about biometrics as a means of authenticating users. How strong of an authentication method is it, really? What about the privacy issues? Is it true twins can fool a voice verification system? Are the one-in-a-million odds of a false face match low enough? Will biometrics live up to all the hype?
Since Apple’s announcement of Face ID on the iPhone X, people are talking about biometric authentication as if it’s the be-all and end-all for authentication today—and, at the same time, questioning whether it can stand up to the challenge of delivering secure, reliable authentication over the long term.
The problem is, those are the wrong questions. They only make sense if you’re operating on the assumption that biometric authentication is intended to supplant all the methods of authentication that came before it and that it, too, will eventually be eclipsed by the next major advance in authentication technology.
Those assumptions saddle a single form of authentication with unreasonable pressure to perform. In reality, biometric authentication is no silver bullet (and was never intended to be one). Like all forms of authenticat ..
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