A Development In Multimodal Security

Multimodal Biometrics In The News

Given today’s tight economic times, it is always the IT budgets in businesses and organizations to get slashed first. I guess to a certain this can make some sense, I mean after all, if something is working, and is adequate to meet the needs of the employees to do their jobs, why upgrade???  Really, it can be viewed just as a capital expenditure.  Unfortunately though, very often, security budgets which are used to protect corporate assets are also thrown into this IT budget, and fundings for it too, get slashed. 

But the thing with security, is that you cannot rely upon legacy systems any more to protect your place of business any more.  Like the cat and mouse game I have talked about before, you have to stay ahead so that the hackers and the attackers can’t get to you.  Believe it or not, there are people out there who make it their full time mission to just hack and crack.  Fortunately though, Biometrics is not one of those technologies which age over time too quickly.  Even the hand geometry scanner developed two decades ago is still being used as a very rugged and protective device.  But probably the reason for this is that Biometrics is still not widely used here in the United States. 

And, when talking about security, one of the cardinal rules is to never rely on just one means of security-always have multiple layers of it.  In the world of Biometrics, this is known as a “multimodal biometric solution”-for instance, you have a fingerprint scanner coupled with the use of an iris scanner for double the protection.  In fact, multimodal solutions is a prime choice for SME owners-they can now afford multiple security for virtually the cost of one gigantic biometric implantation.  In today’s posting, I am pleased to introduce M2SYS, LLC who is a leader in the field of multimodal biometric solutions. 

In fact, just recently, they received an award for one of their cutting edge solutions.  You can see the details of this below, and even download the full press release at the link provided at the bottom of this posting.  So, here we go:

Frost and Sullivan announced that M2SYS Technology has received Frost and Sullivan’s  2011 North American New Product Innovation Award for Hybrid Biometric Platform™ - the first scalable, multi-modal biometrics system that supports fingerprint, finger vein, palm vein, and iris recognition from a single server.  Software developers can integrate into Hybrid Biometric Platform™ once and immediately utilize any of these biometric modalities to ensure that customers are not locked into a single biometric technology or device that may not work reliably for their end users.

Frost and Sullivan recognized M2SYS and their Hybrid Biometric Platform™ multi-modal biometrics system for the award through careful evaluation against the following key benchmarks:

*Product Innovation

*Leverage of Leading Edge Technologies

*Value Added Features and Benefits

*Ability to Increase Customer ROI

*Potential for Customer Acquisition and Market Penetration Potential 

M2SYS developed Hybrid Biometric Platform™ to ensure near 100% read rates under any condition, neutralizing the limitations of biometric systems that only support a single modality, such as fingerprint recognition.  Having a single, multi-modal biometric system ensures that customers can easily utilize the form of biometric technology that best meets their needs, without having to undergo extensive development or support.

You can download the entire press release here:

http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/frostsullivan/52531/

 

Comments

[John Trader]

Thank you for the post Ravi. It is clear that moving forward, biometric vendors will have to lower the total cost of ownership and create nimble software solutions that do a better job of reaching 100% read rates for end users.

If anyone expects biometrics to truly reach mainstream adoption, vendors need to minimize risk and create customizable deployment models that can easily neutralize impediments to individual identification such as climate, skin condition and demographics.