An interesting article (called “Securing the Future: Central identity management systems are now a chief priority, but biometric technologies continue to disappoint”), recently published by Information Age, discusses how Central Identity Management is becoming a high priority in enterprises, whilst the adoption level of Biometrics is low:
“… Identity (ID) management is a case in point. The technology, which is intended to restrict access to vital information, ranked second out of 30 technology strategies IT directors are planning to implement within the next 12 months. Of those 25% of corporations that have already implemented such a system, an encouraging 45% regard the technology as ‘quite effective’ with a further 31% responding that it is ‘very effective’.
With a total of 76% of respondents rating the technology as ‘effective’ or ‘very effective’, ID management does well in the overall rankings, coming in as the 6th most effective IT strategy overall. These results also indicate a slight improvement on last year.
Analyst group Gartner identifies five broad classes of identity and access management tools: directory technologies, identity administration, identity auditing, identity verification and access management.
However, of these broad groups, one – identity verification – remains highly problematic for today’s enterprise. Biometrics – the use of a variety of unique physical characteristics such as fingerprints, voice patterns or facial contours to identify individuals – has long been touted as the ideal enterprise identity-verification tool, being supposedly both easy-to-use and highly secure; it has consistently failed to deliver.
As the survey shows, adoption levels of biometrics remain woefully low – just 9% of respondents use biometrics today. A meagre 11% more plan to implement the technology within the next year.”
--- NOTE: my original HP blog can be found here ---
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