While facial recognition at airports continues to grab headlines, other biometrics, such as finger and iris scan, are making what security experts say are deep inroads with real-life computer, network and access control applications.
Finger and iris biometrics easily integrate into electronic and physical access systems. Hotly hyped facial recognition-seemingly seeking investors as hard as end users-tends instead to fall into applications in which the enrollment database are photos of bad guys instead of good guys or more identification than access. There also are concerns about facial recognition's on-the-job effectiveness, according to Electronic Buyers News, among other publications.