Face Recognition Software Replaces Passwords for Computer Security
Previously known in James Bond movies and sci-fi scripts, fingerprint scanners and face recognition technology is quickly becoming the preferred method for protecting company’s most secured areas.
Ways to secure your information from the world has been an evolving process. First the skeleton key, then the padlock and then the secret password. Now, the 21 st century is bringing us biometric technology in keeping everything from how you clock into work to who can start your laptop. With lasers that can read the body’s own fingerprints and shapes of our faces, it allows only registered people in and keeps everyone else’s different biometric ridges and valleys out.
Fingerprint identification isn’t just for James Bond movies anymore. Once technology was able to capture our genetic personal code- highly secure areas, time and attendance clocks and high tech areas were some of the first places the technology was installed.
With a face recognition scanner and face recognition software installed into your company’s security system, only registered users and employees can log into the system. Locks can be broken and passwords can easily be bypassed unless the password is highly cryptic and even so- there are just some types of organizations that cannot take risks. Hazardous waste facilities, scientific, medical and even high tech industries are just a few trades that appreciate this type of technology.
Face recognition software is downloaded into your company’s security system where it acts like a digital catalog holding the biometric face patterns of all of the certified employees. Once an employee’s face is read by the intelligent lasers that scan a person’s face, a match must be made in the system’s catalog before entrance into an area or into a system is allowed.
The same process pertains to fingerprint identification. A person simply places their previous cataloged finger onto a reading plate and a laser will scan their finger and match it up with the one that matches the one in the system and then grant entry just like typing in the correct password word would allow access into a system.
If your company or industry is vulnerable to hackers or even your own staff, it may be time to consider biometric technology to keep your information secure, keep off limit areas protected and stay on track of who has been where and when.
About the author:Melissa Peterman is a web content specialist for Innuity. For more information regards to www.fulcrumbiometrics.com.
Fingerprint identification isn’t just for James Bond movies anymore. Once technology was able to capture our genetic personal code- highly secure areas, time and attendance clocks and high tech areas were some of the first places the technology was installed.
With a face recognition scanner and face recognition software installed into your company’s security system, only registered users and employees can log into the system. Locks can be broken and passwords can easily be bypassed unless the password is highly cryptic and even so- there are just some types of organizations that cannot take risks. Hazardous waste facilities, scientific, medical and even high tech industries are just a few trades that appreciate this type of technology.
Face recognition software is downloaded into your company’s security system where it acts like a digital catalog holding the biometric face patterns of all of the certified employees. Once an employee’s face is read by the intelligent lasers that scan a person’s face, a match must be made in the system’s catalog before entrance into an area or into a system is allowed.
The same process pertains to fingerprint identification. A person simply places their previous cataloged finger onto a reading plate and a laser will scan their finger and match it up with the one that matches the one in the system and then grant entry just like typing in the correct password word would allow access into a system.
If your company or industry is vulnerable to hackers or even your own staff, it may be time to consider biometric technology to keep your information secure, keep off limit areas protected and stay on track of who has been where and when.
About the author:Melissa Peterman is a web content specialist for Innuity. For more information regards to www.fulcrumbiometrics.com.
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