Identification and Authentication at the Frontier: Who Are You? Prove It.

by Tim Lister, The Cutter Business Technology Council

Biometrics, identifying a person by his or her physiological or behavioral characteristics, has gained ink space in the press and even front-page color spreads in journals. For some organizations, identification of individuals will be a profitable activity as these new technologies move out of the lab and into the field. For others, beware the siren song of technology. What problem are you trying to solve, and at what cost? We're not prepared to store a unique biometric ID for every living organism in a database anytime soon.

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Identification and Authentication at the Frontier: Who Are You? Prove It. January 2005

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