Put Your Finger on Proper Security
Posted on December 28, 2004
Redmond | Feature Article: Put Your Finger on Proper Security:
But what if the hacker learns your account password? Game over, right? Not quite: Biometric devices such as fingerprint readers can protect you, but it’s not as simple as plugging them in. To integrate biometrics with Active Directory takes planning, testing and a managed deployment, and not all products are ready. On the other hand, many manufacturers provide fingerprint scanners and basic software for the single user. The following reviews provide an introduction to both.
But what if the hacker learns your biometric (which is generally easier to obtain than any password) and manages to replicate it? This is covered a little bit, but the very high risk if someone does replicate your biometric should have been stated more clearly (ie. you only have a limited number of biometric identifiers):
We would be remiss if we didn’t point out that biometric devices of the type discussed in this article have been subject to various types of attack. Earlier this year I wrote about a Japanese scientist’s success in mounting a “gummy finger” attack on many scanners. His work has been repeated often by others.
Other than that small nitpick, a good article on a few biometric systems available at the moment, focused at network, rather than single user deployment.
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