Industry forum specialists Smartex have revealed plans to partner with cryptographic security consultants Microexpert on a new 2-day residential workshop devoted to biometric authentication operated through mobile devices.In a statement, the group said that passwords and PINs have provided the main forms of identification, authentication and authorisation for many years, but are no longer suitable for purpose – as well as being widely disliked by their users. “They are also amenable to a wide range of fraudulent attacks and theft. The linkage binding people to systems has not been adequate, if it existed at all. Biometrics provide that essential link and are the basis for a secure means to associate authorised users and their entitlements with the proper exercise of a wide range of activities, from remote payments to the validation of the people themselves”.Smartex writes that “Mobile devices are the ideal form factors to provide the biometric reading and validation capability, as this remains firmly in the hands of the subject individual, and eliminates the need for the deployment of millions of expensive biometric readers at points of use”.The workship will explore key themes such as: The principles common to the main biometric systems; how each biometric attribute works in practice; the three main biometric types for mobiles: fingerprint, voice and image, and many more.Richard Poynder, Smartex Chairman, commented: “We are very happy to be working with Microexpert to offer this workshop. Experts agree that m-Biometrics will be the next evolution of payments authentication but we are equally sure that it is not without its problems, variations between mobile devices being just one problem area. This workshop will uncover both the opportunities and the issues.”More information on the workshop can be found here.
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