As more of our personal information is transferred online, the subject of cybersecurity has become an increasingly pressing issue. From Face ID to iris scans to fingerprint technology, the question over the best biometric to protect and verify identities hangs in the air. Boom ID offers a verification via state-of-the-art palm-based biometric technology that has proven to be the most secure and easiest to use biometric security model available.
A palm-based biometric has two distinct sets of advantages over other biometrics: one is social, the other security.
There are two main social advantages to palm biometric:
- The non-discriminatory nature of the palm. A primary social advantage of the palm is that it is by its nature non-discriminatory. Unlike face ID technology, palm technology does not make any discernment about a person’s race, age, or gender, and thus creates a better user experience across the spectrum of humanity. In fact, there several civil lawsuits underway addressing the discriminatory nature of face ID biometrics.
- It is a non-personally identifiable biometric. A secondary social advantage is personal comfort. Many people are hesitant to use face-oriented biometrics in their security regimen for fear of privacy invasion or other issues. (We’ll touch on why that’s the case below.) The palm biometric obviates the need to potentially expose a personally identifying image to the internet.
The security-related advantages of using the palm are numerous:
- A database of palms is currently very limited. Although there are many online databases from which hackers can download faces, currently there are zero online databases from which hackers can download palms, significantly reducing the threat of your identity being stolen via your palm.
- BoomID’s palm authentication uses video, not static imagery. The process that BoomID’s technology undertakes to scan a person’s palm is thorough, it is not simply a photograph of your palm. BoomID makes a video series of your palm to ensure that it is from a live person by examining vascular tissue.? The video segments are converted into vector-based images and corresponding mathematical formulas which become the basis for verification. Images and video are never stored after conversion.?
- The human palm has considerably more potential points of data than, say, a fingerprint, as well as vascular characteristics that enable the liveliness check which is unavailable with fingerprint-based technology.
Additionally, BoomID’s palm verification adds two additional layers of security to strengthen the process. The BoomID app and device on which the verification is occurring are also checked to ensure the app has been properly accessed and the device does not match a known malicious device profile.
When it comes to cybersecurity, it is clear that the palm is the most secure and easy to use biometric out there. Boom ID’s safe, easy-to-use palm authentication protects you without issues arising from skin tone, gender or age, ensures a smooth user experience, and delivers the highest level of security for your most personal information – all in the palm of your hand.
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2 年An interesting perspective from biometricupdate.com supporting many of the points in the article above. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202007/the-future-of-biometrics-is-in-the-palm-of-your-hand
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2 年Fingerprint scanning is a natural fit to the touch screen on smartphones. The camera on our smartphones that we use to take selfies are a natural fit for facial recognition biometric. I would not denounce these over scanning the palm of the hand, necessarily. Even law enforcement still relies on fingerprint analysis for their forensics because those are more likely found at the crime scene vs a full palm print. While the fingerprint (and by extension the palm scan in BoomID) may be useful in an epidemic or pandemic state due to communicable diseases that are thwarted by covering our faces, having a true multi-factored approach is where I think BoomID could shine. Why not have 2 or 3 dimensions, like NIST AAL2 or 3 prescribes? Both Okta and Microsoft are moving in that direction of allowing the requiring of both push notification response and device biometric authentication as the conditional access. If BoomID allowed for wearable or smartphone telemetry + device biometric - this may be more secure. Of course, all scenarios would need to be tested.