Biometrics

What is Biometrics?

Biometrics is the measurement and matching of biological characteristics such as finger images, hand geometry, facial recognition, etc.

Why is biometric security better than passwords?

Biometrics offers significant improvements in security over passwords. In fact, combining passwords with biometrics or combining biometrics (e.g. two finger images) improves security even further. A finger image cannot be found under the keyboard or in a desk drawer, where passwords are often kept. No one can look over your shoulder and observe you typing your finger image. Equally important, finger images are easier to use than passwords; you can’t forget them or lose them, and they don’t have to be changed every thirty or ninety days. Password maintenance can have a significant negative impact on a company’s productivity, and remains a growing problem with continued password proliferation
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Technology

A biometric is a measure of a physical or behavioral trait that's unique to one person. Most authentication methods rely on "something you know" factors, like a password, or "something you have" factors, like a token or access card. The problem is, any one of those factors can be lost, stolen, counterfeited or forgotten. Biometric measures, on the other hand, are almost impossible to duplicate because they identify "something you are".

Our identity management solution relies on behavioral biometrics to quickly and accurately identify individuals as they engage in their normal routines. The technology quickly, accurately, and undetectably confirms identity of individuals attempting to use computing resources.

The human brain permits us to effortlessly identify and classify people based on a combination of sensory and behavioral cues. This ability it is one of our most basic and important skills that we possess.

Everyday, our brain uses a set of rules and conditions to perform a highly evolved form of biometric discrimination. For instance, when talking to someone on a telephone that you have not met previously, what clues to their identity can you gain from just their speech alone?

Based on frequency, cadence, tone, rhythm, pitch, inflection, and accent, you can generally tell:

• The gender of the person
• If they are young or old
• If they have an accent, and depending on your familiarity with the accent, might reveal where they are from with a high degree of specificity
• Emotional state, i.e. happy, excited, sad, or angry

NeoKinetics develops technology to digitally identify and classify unique behaviors that people exhibit in a digital environment. Our technologies enable our clients to deploy systems that use our identification and classification methodologies to:

• Verify identity
• Identify and classify groups
• Identify and assess behavior

Our technologies are passive, where observed behavior is recorded, measured and evaluated using rules based on historical precedence in conjunction with systems security requirements. Our technology is completely undetectable by individuals that use the systems on which our technology is deployed resulting in increased acceptance and access.