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Securing M-Banking and M-Commerce Through Biometrics

Posted May 8, 2012 | Technology |

With the explosive growth in mobile payments, security becomes a paramount concern. Increasingly, the security focus is turning to biometrics. Biometrics facilitate the automatic authentication of a living person based on his or her unique physiological or behavioral characteristics. Common physical biometrics include fingerprints; hand or palm geometry; retina, iris, or ear shape; or facial characteristics. Behavioral characteristics include signature, voice, and gait. Of this class of biometrics, technologies for signature and voice are the most developed.

About The Author
Karen Neville
Karen Neville is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Information Systems at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. She is founder and Managing Director of UCC’s Centre for Resilience and Business Continuity. In 2013, Dr. Neville was awarded a €3.5 million European Union grant for the Secure Health, Emergency, Learning, and Planning (S-HELP) project for the development of decision support tools for EM practitioners. She successfully… Read More
Leona O Brien
Leona O’Brien is a Senior Regulatory Technology Researcher in the Department of Business Information Systems at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. Her research interests include semantic technologies, financial regulation, and regtech/fintech. Ms. O’Brien has been widely published, has collaborated on several regtech innovations, and has been awarded nearly US $500K in research funding. She is a speaker and panel member of industry… Read More
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