Biometrics are one of the greatest advancements in technological security that we have seen in a long time. Through using individually unique physical characteristics (and vocal), biometrics makes the art of unauthorized access extremely difficult. Lucky for us, a new fingerprint technology is on the way.

“With any fingerprint system, a user will never present exactly the same image to the scanner. There will always be subtle variations, (for instance, dirt, cuts, faulty scanner). Systems match on the basis of confidence intervals, i.e. a fingerprint is 95% similar to the one in the database.

fingerPIN™ Ltd has announced the launch of the fingerPIN™, a biometric fingerprinting technology that increases the complexity of penetrating fingerprint based security methods. The fingerPIN authenticates identity on two levels: the uniqueness of the users’ fingerprints and the privacy of the sequence.

Through the fingerPIN the risk of someone fraudulently logging on or accessing a secure area using a third person’s fingerprint data are reduced from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 10 billion due to the difficulty of cracking a combination of several unique fingerprints used in a specific sequence. The fingerPIN provides this enhanced level of security through a simple software upgrade to existing fingerprint readers and by storing fingerprints as an encrypted digital pattern. fingerPIN has also announced that MatchLogon is the first company to integrate fingerPIN into its PC/Network logon software.

When a single fingerprint is presented, that interval needs to be very high, to ensure that other people can not login as an authorised user. With fingerPIN, as multiple fingerprints are used in a sequence, the interval for each fingerprint is reduced. As long as a user knows the sequence in which the fingerprints were input, it massively reduces the chances of letting a non-authorised user log in.

The fingerPIN represents a major shift in biometric fingerprinting technology. Several fingerprints in sequence are more secure than one, and fingerPIN helps to eliminate the threat from fingerprint lifting: a phenomenon which allows criminals to copy and readily use available fingerprint data to gain access to secure areas, PCs and laptops. The fingerPIN also dispenses with usernames, ‘weak’ or similar passwords, cards, tokens, keys and fobs, so leaving nothing to carry or loose.

MatchLogon specializes in supplying alternatives for standard Windows password-based authentication technologies and replaces them with fingerprints, USB tokens or smartcards. MatchLogon is a ready to use product which provides a solution to remote logon to the corporate network using dial up session or VPN and building a single sign on environment. By implementing fingerPIN, MatchLogon users can bypass username and ID input through simply inputting their fingerprints in sequence. The new fingerPIN concept will enhance security, while reducing administrator time lost on resetting passwords and improving manageability of passwords.”

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What better compliment to biometrics than multi-form biometrics. By applying multi-authentication procedures into the biometric realm, it dramatically increases the difficulty of allowing intruders unauthorized access to physical and digital areas

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