Though biometric analytics have been around for a few years now, Apple and Samsung’s recent introduction of fingerprint readers to their newest mobile devices prove that biometric security systems are going to be more and more commonplace in the public sector. The research organization Goode Intelligence estimates that biometric authentication will be on most mobile devices by the end of 2015 and that by 2019, it will be used by 5.5 billion people worldwide. Familiarity with biometric analytics means ease of use for employees and consumers alike.
Deciding to use biometric analytics as a means of security depends greatly on the asset being protected; however, the cost is coming down as the technology is researched, perfected and used more widely, says William Edaburn, Technical Security Specialist at Southern California Edison. As companies tire of entering passwords and keeping track of them all, as well as risk the potential for being hacked, biometric solutions are becoming the wave of the very near future, according to Kayvan Alikhani, Senior Director of Technology at RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and a provider of intelligence-driven security solutions