Biometrics Authentication Advantages

• Convenience
Being an effective way to preserve privacy and prevent identity theft, biometrics offers a convenient alternative to carrying documents, remembering passwords and entering personal identification numbers.

• Perdurability
Biometric features cannot be lost, stolen, hidden or torn. They last during a lifetime.

• Memory Independence
Biometric characteristics don’t depend on the user’s memory as opposed to passwords or PINs

• Non-shareable
In contradistinction to PINs, passwords and identity cards (magnetic, IC, proximity, etc.) biometric characteristics cannot be shared or used by others.

• Confidentiality
Only non-reversible templates are saved in the matching databases. ”Visible” Biometric characteristics, such as the image of a fingerprint, are not.

• Reliability
Biometric technologies have been tested under the most demanding conditions. They are already protecting private and public organizations by preventing unauthorized people from accessing restricted facilities, preserving the integrity of financial and law-enforcement systems, protecting the access of potential intruders to PCs and data networks, and many other applications.

• Easy Administration
Since individuals can be accurately identified by biometric technology; organizations also gain benefits by relieving security personnel, network managers, and customer service representatives of the tedious - and often intrusive - tasks of identity verification and password/PIN administration.

• Low Maintenance Costs
No consumables or replacement accessories are needed (such as cards or badges)

• Productivity
Biometrics gives companies and governments a simple and cost effective way of gaining efficiency from workers by cutting waste and fraud in time and attendance areas, and delivering consistent reliable customer service.