Senior in the Department of Homeland Security, Lisa MacDonald had an exclusive comment to give the GovCon Wire on why biometric identification provides the baseline for cyber security, being a set of minimum security standards in the digital age to protect businesses services and data, as well as physical safety bound with our identity. It can deter fraud a numerous scenarios and be the key to capturing offending individuals that pose a serious danger to the U.S. security system.
MacDonald, Director of Identity Capabilities Management within the Office of Biometric Identity Management, said: “Biometrics support operational missions across DHS to help determine whether an individual poses a threat, as well as whether to grant or deny benefits.
Biometric capabilities are growing within the DHS, increasing the number of touchpoints by first consulting the industry to install legacy systems for biometrics, also known as HART, the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology. The system will be migrated away from IDENT, the Automated Biometric Identification System.
OBIM and DHS want to expedite identity-matching, making it more malleable for growing data capacity for over 262 million people, the article said.
Biometric innovation is shaping possibilities and challenges in terms of “policy and privacy considerations, technical advancements, an ever-evolving threat environment, and the potential to enhance service delivery,” MacDonald told GovCon Wire.
