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Cross Match Technologies Positions for the Future With Safe, Scalable Technology Infrastructure
Cross Match Technologies Inc. is a leading global provider of high-quality interoperable biometric identity applications and solutions. The company wanted to build a safe, scalable technology and applications infrastructure to support plans for taking the company public. The challenge was to establish processes and system capabilities to support business growth...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Biometric Identification, Workforce, Biometrics, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware Upgrade, Security, Human Resources, Hardware
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Qualcomm Case Study: Ontario Police Department
The City of Ontario Police Department serves a Southern California community of 165,000 people and 52 square miles. The objective was to improve the safety of the community by enabling police officers to identify subjects and verify their identity in the field. The Ontario Police Department deployed the Integrated Biometric...
Tags: Qualcomm Inc., Biometric Identification, Biometrics, Security
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MacOSX.com Whitepaper: Biometrics
Biometric identification refers to identifying an individual based on his/her distinguishing physiological and/or behavioural characteristics. As these characteristics are distinctive to each and every person, biometric identification is more reliable and capable than the traditional token based and knowledge based technologies differentiating between an authorized and a fraudulent person. This...
Tags: Biometric Identification, Biometrics, Security
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Cross Match Technologies, Inc. Uses Effective Documentation to Improve Business Processes
Cross Match Technologies, Inc. is a leading global supplier of high-quality, interoperable, biometric identity technologies. The company wanted to ensure user acceptance of new Enterprise Resource Planning ERP applications through turn-key documentation. The challenge was to improve documentation of business processes to facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley...
Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Documentation, Biometric Identification, Biometrics, Operational Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Security, Business Operations, Software
Case studies 2007-10-01
Airport security meets science fiction
Iris and fingerprint scan?Where do you suppose GE's SFO system will get its data for the iris or fingerprint inputs? Will you have to submit one of them when you purchase your ticket rather hard for online transactions, or are they waiting for the emergence of a government ran...
Tags: airport, biometric identification, database, privacy, security, Trav62
Discussion threads 2006-09-23

Additional Resources

Biometrics: A Look at Facial Recognition
Biometrics is used for human recognition which consists of identification and verification. The terms differ significantly. With identification, the biometric system asks and attempts to answer the question, "Who is X?" In an identification application, the biometric device reads a sample and compares that sample against every record or template...
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Facial Recognition, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security
White papers 2003-02-04
Voice Biometrics as a Natural and Cost-Effective Method of Authentication
In the past, voice biometrics took a back seat to other physical biometric methods of identification and verification, such as fingerprints, facial recognition and iris scans, but new algorithms and more robust computer processing power have increased accuracy rates exponentially, making voice biometrics a competitive threat to the more invasive,...
Tags: Voice, Authentication, Voice Biometric, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Identity Theft, Productivity, Security, Telecommunications
White papers 2007-02-28
Case Study: Benchmarking Real-Time Determinism in Windows CE
In the post-9/11 world, the ability to use biometrics - the scanning of embedded human biological data - to accurately validate the authenticity of personal identification documents has become a mission-critical task for security agencies. Biometric identifiers are becoming an increasingly important feature of personal identification documents, ranging from driver's...
Tags: Benchmarking, Documetrics, Microsoft Windows CE, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software
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Biometrics Technology
Biometrics technology may be an option for any organization that uses physical cards, documents, passwords, or identification numbers to secure data stored in electronic format on a computer or Automated Teller Machine ATM. Since biometric applications can be simple - off-the-shelf packages can be installed to restrict staff access to...
Tags: Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security
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Ultra Secure Personnel Identification Biometrics Vs. XRF and Elemental Tagging
Today there are many documents and forms of personal identification required for the conduct of business and everyday life. Drivers' licenses, passports, badges and swipe tags for entry into proprietary buildings, are typical forms of identification and access permits. Unfortunately, many of these forms of personal identification are stolen or...
Tags: Identification, Driver, Tagging, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security
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Economic Aspects of Biometrics
Biometric technologies are means of identification based on one or more physical and difficult to forge characteristics. They offer the promise of enhanced confidence in identification - connections between an individual and data that represent that individual's identity. However, individuals in modern society no longer necessarily have just one identity...
Tags: Biometrics, Identity
White papers 2005-01-01
Owens Corning Plant Hands Access Off to Biometrics
At the Owens Corning 250-acre campus in Newark, Ohio, those seeking access to the manufacturing plant, as well as other facilities, must present their hands for a biometric scan to verify identification before admittance to the facilities. The challenge was to secure the building without the use of badges or...
Tags: Owens Corning, Microsoft Access, Ingersoll-Rand, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Manufacturing, Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software
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Can Soft Biometric Traits Assist User Recognition?
Biometrics is rapidly gaining acceptance as the technology that can meet the ever increasing need for security in critical applications. Biometric systems automatically recognize individuals based on their physiological and behavioral characteristics. Hence, the fundamental requirement of any biometric recognition system is a human trait having several desirable properties like...
Tags: Trait, Michigan State University, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Security, Management
White papers 2004-10-21
Biometrics: Will Digital Fingerprints, Iris Scans and Speaker Recognition Soon Replace Passwords and Personal Identification Numbers?
Biometrics is a high tech word for an old concept: how they go about recognizing one another. Biometric authentication uses automated methods based on physical characteristics or behavioral traits for human recognition. Examples of biometrics include iris and retina scanning, digitized fingerprints, hand geometry and speaker recognition. Biometric authentication offers...
Tags: Digital Fingerprint, Password, Biometric Authentication, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security
White papers
Physical Security in Mission Critical Facilities
Physical security - controlling personnel access to facilities - is critical to achieving data center availability goals. As new technologies such as biometric identification and remote management of security data become more widely available, traditional card-and-guard security is being supplanted by security systems that can provide positive identification and tracking...
Tags: Data Centers, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2004-01-01
Privacy and Biometrics
Biometric systems can be designed to put the power of the biometric into the hands of the individual, as opposed to the government, the police, or big business. Applications can be configured to give the data subject the ability to control access to his or her own biometric data, to...
Tags: Government Of Canada, Privacy, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security
White papers 2005-08-29
Yell rolls out biometric log-on
Yell, the business directory provider has rolled out biometric single sign on to 1500 of their mobile staff. The chosen implementation - Imprivata OneSign ESSO, provides access to 10 applications via a single, biometric fingerprint sign-on. The biometric scanner used is the inbuilt security device in IBM notebooks....
Tags: Yell
Blog posts 2006-06-19
Universal Biometric Driver (exe)
Universal Biometric driver is designed to communicate PayPunch software with different types of biometric devices and data transferring to PayPunch database.Universal Biometric driver is designed to communicate PayPunch software with different types of biometric devices and data transferring to PayPunch database. Version 3.9.15 includes unspecified updates.
Tags: Driver, Biometric Device, Biometrics, Security
Software downloads 2007-11-15
Positive Identification and Access Control
Unisys and the ES7000 server are doing its part to help fight crime. Working closely with the Chilean Immigration Police, Unisys is assisting with a biometric security solution that addresses forgery problems with travel documents and movement of criminals across borders all the while speeding up airport queues. Two ES7000...
Tags: Unisys Corp., Server, Access Control, Processors, Security, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
Case studies
Advanced Biometrics System Deployed for Identity Management and Criminal Applications
With a total area of 9,250 km2 and the European Union's (EU's) eastern-most member (in 2004), Cyprus experienced a substantial influx of immigrants, requiring the country to obtain new and powerful identification tools to protect their borders and identify individuals. Motorola was selected to provide the Cyprus National Police Force...
Tags: Identity Management, Motorola Inc., Authentication/Encryption, Biometrics, Security
Case studies 2006-11-13
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