Biometric security technology

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of biometric security technology, highlighting its advantages over traditional methods and its growing importance in applications like passports, serving as an introductory primer on the subject.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive overview of biometric security technology, emphasizing its potential and current applications, especially in identification and security systems.

Findings

Biometrics offer greater security and convenience.

Biometric systems are increasingly adopted in official identification.

Understanding biometric technology is essential for future security applications.

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the main topics related to biometric security technology, with the main purpose to provide a primer on this subject. Biometrics can offer greater security and convenience than traditional methods for people recognition. Even if we do not want to replace a classic method (password or handheld token) by a biometric one, for sure, we are potential users of these systems, which will even be mandatory for new passport models. For this reason, to be familiarized with the possibilities of biometric security technology is useful.