Reviewing system approaches
Today, many companies are choosing biometrics, which are the behavioral or physiological characteristics that are unique to an individual, to provide password-free authentication into devices, facilities, and computer systems. When faced with a decision to implement a biometric solution to provide identification and authentication to an organization, there are a couple of questions:
- What is our approach on how to implement the system; will it be standalone or networked?
- Of the many choices we have, what are some of the advantages and disadvantages of some common biometric identifiers?
In this section, we'll review these questions. Let's start with evaluating how a networked system works.
Networking the biometric system
A complex corporate environment will most likely need a networked solution that is capable of centralized administration. Most systems will have the ability to manage the system remotely using a web interface...