Uh oh - some bad press for biometrics. And since this weblog tries to take a small move away from the normal corporate inclinations we have as a biometric manufacturer, we thought it fair to show you this. And of course, know that you're able to make up your own mind about things.
Research from Gartner presented at the IT Security Summit conference in London said that many security technologies out now aren't necessary. Including biometrics. This is very contradicatory to all the other reports, studies, surveys, opinions, forecasts, projections, diary entries, and dance interpretations that have said that security needs to be priority, and newer tactics need to be in place. No doubt some of that by Gartner themselves.
Well anyways, here it is:
The list of security items a company probably doesn't need within the next five years includes personal digital signatures, quantum key exchanges, passive intrusion detection, biometrics, tempest shielding (to protect some devices from emanating decipherable data), default passwords, and enterprise digital rights management outside of workgroups, according to Victor Wheatman, vice president and research area director at Gartner, based in Stamford, Connecticut.As a company, you should be able to determine yourself if you need biometrics or any of these other tools on your own merit. Not because you don't employ "airline pilots" or 'stubborn executives', the only good reason to deploy biometrics, obviously.
Avoid security tools you don't need.
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