Unisys revealed: biometric security technology in identity management has become increasingly important

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With the popularity of Internet banking, in order to protect the security of online transactions, most banks through the use of digital certificates to ensure the authenticity of the user identity. As of September 2007, China's financial center of the digital certificate issuance of over 1.9 million. However, according to the Centre "2007 China Internet banking investigation report" shows that there are still outstanding 71.7 percent of respondents use Internet banking because of suspected network-security without the use of online banking, this proportion than in 2006 increased by 10 percent. Unisys Global Public Sector Director, Greater China Qin Feng said that with the online services and transactions increase, as security management business, banks and the Government's major task. In this regard, traditional settings, including password plus token has been inadequate, as the technology development, dynamic password, such as fingerprint recognition technology has been adopted to deal with the new network identity theft issues.

Unisys in 2007, has published two related report also proved that the Asia-Pacific region and Hong Kong in favour of using biometrics technology to enhance security management capacity. "Asia-Pacific consumer finance market research report: return and compromise", Unisys testing with existing customers in the maintenance of the relationship between the bank or choose a new bank will make a compromise in which the findings show that the highest of all banks Recognition System The third option business. In addition, "global security Unisys confidence index" showed that in Hong Kong, 97% of the respondents were willing to take more security means, such as biometrics. 87% of Hong Kong residents expressed grave or very worried that personal information was unauthorized access or abuse and credit card information theft.

In fact, the Government and the industry is growing rapidly experience the biometric technology value to ensure that they adopt the appropriate safety measures to reduce the security risk in the complex of exposure. Establish consumer confidence, consumer confidence was, this is more and more well-known biometric authentication methods, and represents a great advantage.

Based on biometrics and other authentication measures enterprises can be used to guarantee to consumers protect their personal information the most realistic approach. But if the people accept the new security measures, enterprises need to inform these new security measures in principle, as well as their targets to be achieved. Why, for example, to extract fingerprints » Their photos will be preserved where?

Today, people long for in life and access to safe, and this desire has never been stronger. They expect, or even expect them to life in all aspects of security and protection for all - whether dealing with the relationship between health care providers, social or e-mail exchanges, such as online shopping. More importantly, the people also hope that new technology can bring about faster and greater convenience, including the Airport Customs rapid access, and hope to be able to launch mobile phone banking business.

With the public's acceptance of biometric technology, the use of the technology matures, innovation will be further voice, face, fingerprint and iris recognition and other biometric identification methods familiar to expand to new areas. A promising option is the blood recognition technology, the use of this technology exists in the wrist or finger vein of biological information code. Similarly, a biometric identification technology, automatic rapid DNA matching may also be more widely recognized. Biometric's continued investment in research and development activities will promote the further deepening and expanding to new markets, such as access to family and the elderly care services.

More and more use of "pre-registration choose (opt-in)" security projects will promote support for remote scanning of the further application of technology, to achieve regional security on the verification and faster access. For example, Unisys has registered visitors (Registered Traveller) program allows frequent access to passengers flying in support of the certificate to identify more easily through airport security checks, and will not lower safety standards. At present the United States already use the item, Australia also began to actively explore, travel facilitation (Facilitated Travel) and security early warning concept enjoys popular support.

The most important is the application of a variety of biometric security solutions and other authentication methods, or combine, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and smart card technology. Beijing Frontier General Inspection Station at the end of 2007 launched self-service clearance system, self-service clearance system will take full advantage of the smart passports, documents and fingerprint recognition technology, through advanced information technology, to complete the border inspection procedures. Where can change from the existing passport holders of the new smart travel documents of passengers, when a simple, by fingerprints, machine quickly identify accurate, visitors can clearance rate from the present 45 seconds / 10 were substantially upgraded to Seconds / person, to effectively improve the efficiency of port clearance, saving passengers time to designate the seizure.

Regardless of what the use of safety measures, the most effective security would be to enterprises as a whole, to assess all possible security risks, including the risk of internal and external risks. This means the overall security can help enterprises further reduce security threats and risks.

Well-to-business and government, the next step is to identify and maintain globally consistent application of security, privacy in the context of strengthening moral solution. 2007, industry, government and academia alliance of global Centre for Ethical Identity Assurance (CEIA) was established to develop and promote the identity authentication standards, and support compatible with various sectors and geographical business practice. CEIA is an important measure for the drafting of a "consumer bill of rights" Bill to protect personal information and preventing identity fraud.

The reality is that the identity and biometric technology, technology-based security improvements can enhance people's privacy, convenience and choice. More and more people have realized this, but if you want to achieve this advantage, the Government and the fact that enterprises need to clearly communicate to consumers, highlighting the need of consumers in the privacy and security to choose between, they can At the same time get the two. Technology has been chosen so that enterprises can meet its security needs of the correct solution portfolio. There is no doubt that biometric technology will be those who seek to take the overall identity management methods of government and industry security solutions to play a major role.