About Biometrics

Personal biometrics are unique and nontransferable so biometric-based security provides convenience for the implementer and the user: it can't be lost, stolen or forgotten, and reduces administrative costs.

Biometrics are most commonly used to control access to facilities, enhance computer network security, protect financial transactions, safeguard international borders, verify time and attendance, and prevent benefits fraud.

Biometrics are an effective way to preserve privacy and protect against identity theft. The technologies also offer a convenient alternative to carrying documents, remembering passwords, and entering personal identification numbers. Since individuals can be accurately identified by biometric technology, end users also gain benefits by relieving security personnel, network managers and customer service representatives of the tedious—and often intrusive—tasks of identity verification and password/PIN administration.

Biometrics provides a simple and cost-effective way of getting higher productivity from workers, cutting waste and fraud, and delivering consistent, reliable customer service.

Yes. The very purpose of biometric data is to establish an association between a specific individual and unique identification information, although the association is not normally discernible by someone that doesn't possess the decryption key. Biometric data is always traceable to the originating individual.

Digital Defense Group uses a matching technique where our technology scans and records multiple minutiae points. The minutiae is then assigned mathematical values called a fingerprint template. The template is encrypted and stored on a token to be used in future live comparisons. No fingerprint other than the one used to create the template will make a perfect match.

A biometric record is an encrypted template stored in digital form and cannot be reconstructed to reveal a person’s identity to someone else unless authorized. Only the "owner" can access information, so it serves as an effective gatekeeper of personal privacy and a strong deterrent against identity theft. Compared to other methods of establishing who you are, a driver license or birth certificate, biometrics are tools that can actually enhance privacy and also prevent abuse.

No. Identification compares one to many. Identification occurs when a live biometric—like a fingerprint—is compared electronically to a database containing many stored images and a match is found. Authentication or verification is a 1:1 comparison. Identification systems ask, “Who are you?” Authentication systems ask, “Are you who you claim to be?”