The use of finger print identification to access a laptop or other electronic device has become an accepted though not widely adopted biometric technology for securing access, particularly to sensitive systems. Banking applications using fingerprint identification technology have come under increasingly sophisticated attacks by fraudsters and is no longer the secure biometric solution it once was; the main issue here is the speed with which fraudsters have been able to develop techniques to circumvent fingerprint identification – in other words, before the technology has become widely adopted as standard, the criminals have already found a way to get around it!
Vein mapping provides for a more sophisticated and secure proprietary identification solution than finger printing security using the intricate network of veins under the skin of the palm of your hand. This provides a far more unique security biometric that is itself more secure. Finger prints can be replicated by taking copies off of objects touched by the target; making a replica becomes a simple process that anyone who watches CSI on a regular basis will be familiar with. The vein map is however not so easily copied as it requires the palm of the targets hand to be physically scanned and mapped in order to obtain the necessary biometric data required to get past security.
The application for vein mapping extends beyond door locks with Fujitsu and Hitachi both offering solutions which are used for desktop and laptop security. Both companies have developed infra red technology which upon scanning ensures the energy is absorbed by the blood and thus reveals the pattern of veins within the hand. This pattern is then scanned and digitized before being stored as the template for comparison with the real palm vein pattern when it is scanned by an access reader securing the physical asset whether it be access to a building, machinery or computer.
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