General Directorate for Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Duba is introducing new biometric-based services, including an automated passport kiosk.

Enterprises currently using proximity card readers, as well as those using smart card readers, can now add biometric authorization to their verification process without having to implement biometric readers.

This cost-effective access control camera unlocks doors upon positive face recognition once authorized users walk within 12 feet of it.

To better protect proprietary or sensitive data, enterprises can utilize this fingerprint-area scanner, which plugs into a USB port and can be used to authenticate users at the device.

This online security software can authenticate a user logging into a network with 99.97-percent accuracy, according to a company study.

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.

San Francisco city employees working at the de Young and Legion of Honor museums are protesting use of their thumbprints in biometric authorization.

 Mastercard and Visa are implementing new cybersecurity measures to ensure that hacked credit card data will be less valuable to hackers.

 Uber's safety chief is promising to improve driver screening using biometrics and voice verification.