Biometric authentication, derived from the Greek words for life and measure, utilizes unique individual traits such as fingerprints, facial recognition, and voice patterns for identification. This technology offers benefits including enhanced security, reduced identity fraud, and eliminates the need for passwords, making identification efficient and reliable. The growth in biometric applications is projected to reach 770 million downloads annually by 2019, with an eventual market of 4.8 billion biometric devices by 2020.

1. A S I M P L E A N A LY S I S F O R A N O T S O S I M P L E S U B J E C T
WHAT IS
BIOMETRIC
AUTHENTICATION

2. The word “biometrics”
comes from the Greek
language and is
derived from the
words bio (life) and
metric (to measure).
A little history on BIOMETRICS

3. Biometric
technology includes
fingerprints, eyes,
face, hand geometry,
handwriting and
voice recognition
Fingerprint
scanners are the
most common
type of biometric
technology

4. IS IT W OR TH IT?
Benefits of Biometrics

5. BENEFIT #1
EASY IDENTIFICATION
You can compare biometrics amongst millions of
records that can be contained in a computer
database. The results can be instantaneous
depending on the amount of records that you are
comparing the fingerprints to. Employees won’t have
to carry identification cards any longer and can
simply use their own fingerprint to identify
themselves.

6. BENEFIT #2
See Ya Identity Fraud
Biometric technology lessens the risk of identity
fraud. As a result, many different companies
and organizations can save time and money. It
is much more difficult to fraud a biometric
device than to steal an employee identification
card. Someone would have to go to great
lengths to hack into a biometric database – let
alone replicate a person’s identity.

7. BENEFIT #3
Top-Notch Security
Biometrics as a whole are tightly connected to
an individual and cannot be forgotten (like
passwords), shared (because it’s highly
unlikely for someone to replicate biometrics),
stolen (people would really have to come up
with an elaborate plan) or easily hacked.

8. BENEFIT #4
Bye, Bye Passwords
Instead of having to remember a long list of
passwords, biometric technology can unlock
anything needing a password as authentication.
For a business, this saves memory space,
documentation and in the end, a whole lot of
money.

9. { }770million biometric authentication
applications will be downloaded
each year by 2019. – Juniper Research

10. { }
Smartphone, tablets and
wearable mobile devices
that incorporate biometrics
will drive a global market of
2.5 billion users with nearly
4.8 billion biometric devices
by 2020.
-- Acuity Market Intelligence
4.8Billion
Biometric Devices
2.5Billion Users
2020

11. The IAFIS is the largest
criminal biometric
database in the world with
over 72 million records.
– www.fbi.gov
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