Biometric Measures for Security

Some organizations are looking towards biometrics for security reasons. Whether they certain individuals to gain access to a highly secure room or to gain access to extremely sensitive data, this is an option for any organization to use to give authorized employees access. There are many options for a company to choose from to implement and so many vendors to purchase from. When a IT Security Manager is thinking of implementing these products they want to choose a biometric method that is cost efficient, extremely reliable, and most importantly very secure. The biometric options that are available are as follows:

Fingerprints
ID card (Face Representation)

Palm scan

Facial recognition

Hand geometry

Retinal scan

Hand topology

Iris scan

Among all of these options only three of them are considered unique, fingerprints, retina, and iris. So when the IT Security department looks into implementing this software for authorization reasons they should employ, one or two of these biometric methods.