Chinese tech manufacturer Lenovo has revealed plans to create a biometric authentication wing that will help push China's cyberspace security agenda amid increasing risks of hacking, data breaches and identity theft.The body will be called Online Biometric Authentication, and will be a subsidiary of the Lenovo Capital & Incubator Group (LCIG), reported China.org.Henry (Haixin) Chai, CEO of the new company told reporters:”China is more extensively exposed to the mobile internet than any market in the world, and the traditional authentication methods of username/password combo can no longer meet users' demand for convenience, efficiency and safety especially in the ever expanding mobile internet,” said Chai.”That's why we want to provide more advanced technologies and solutions to end users through stronger online authentication methods based on FIDO standards,” added Chai who chairs the China Working Group at Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) alliance that creates open standards for a secure and easy-to-use universal authentication, including biometric measures such as fingerprint and iris recognition, eliminating the world's dependency on password-based security.””That's why we want to provide more advanced technologies and solutions to end users through stronger online authentication methods based on FIDO standards,” added Chai who chairs the China Working Group at Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) alliance that creates open standards for a secure and easy-to-use universal authentication, including biometric measures such as fingerprint and iris recognitionBrett McDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance, added on the development: “Many businesses and government agencies around the world have a shared interest in improving online authentication to address the password problem ߪ but the problem is too big to solve single handedly, and we must collaborate on a global scale.”Tan Tieniu, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of computer vision and pattern recognition, agreed that it takes coordination across the industry and efforts from the policy, technical and standard level to fully address the problem.
Lenovo forms spinoff focusing on biometric authentication
