The Eyes Will Have It...

by Skeleton Star

...the password that is. In the not too distant future biometric technologies will provide your password to your computer, bank, and other systems and transactions that require user identification and authentication access controls to protect against unauthorized access. Biometrics is a term that generally refers to technologies that measure and analyze the unique characteristics of human eyes, fingerprints, voice and facial patterns, and hand measurements. The actual business use of biometrics includes a scanner, software that converts the scanned human characteristics into digital information, and a database to store and compare the digital input with previously stored data.

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Current industry standards support identification codes and passwords to prevent unauthorized access to information, although other technologies, such as smart cards or biometrics are used to manage access to highly sensitive information. There are not very many enterprise-wide implementations of biometrics today, but the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks created a renewed sense of urgency regarding all security matters, and gave biometrics an added lift. In addition, biometrics are getting closer to widespread implementation as the price falls and the practicality rises while businesses continue to try to eliminate non-value added costs associated with processes required to address things like forgotten passwords. It has been estimated that every time a computer user calls the help desk for assistance because of a forgotten password, it costs one's company upwards of $50.

Biometric systems are tightly-coupled to a single person, and cannot be easily used by an imposter. This provides a significantly higher-level of user authentication assurance over traditional signatures, passwords, and smart cards that could be used by someone who found one of these laying around.

Estimates are that the use of biometrics will grow more than 50% a year for the next five years by the need for faster, more secure, easier ways to access both data and physical space. So until you are affected, continue to practice good password habits:

• at least 8 characters
• combination of numbers and letters; not easily guessed
• not the same as your user id
• change it every 30 days
• don't write it down

AND.... whatever it is - don't forget it so we can keep help desk costs in check!

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Skeleton Star is a business whose tagline is: "Providing Business Essentials... Making B2B Easy." Skeleton Star owns and operates several web sites of which the following is key to new entrepreneurs: Business Practices.

The author of this article, at one time, was an IT Staff Auditor for a Fortune 10 company, and later managed the global Information Security Program for the Information Technology organization that supported a Fortune 10 company. Reprinting and republishing of this article is granted only with the above credit included. Permission to reprint or republish does not waive any copyright or other rights.

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