Can Biometrics & Artificial Intelligence promise Improved Security?
To answer the question, we must first understand the terms Access Control, Biometrics and Artificial Intelligence.
Access Control is to let the access of the right person to the right place of the facility.
The classical access control methods where human-beings require had to depend on the following:
• Hand-held tokens such as ID card, passport, etc. which can be stolen, faked, shared or cloned (one person can be registered with multiple identities).
• Knowledge-based tokens such as password, PIN, etc. which is guessed or cracked, shared or cloned.
Biometrics is broadly made by two terms ‘bio’ which means physical and ‘metrics’ means measurement. Biometrics, in short, means analysis of biological characteristics of people. It brings a breakthrough in the access control that people need not carry their hand-held tokens or remember their knowledge-based tokens. As their physical characteristics are unique and cannot be stolen or replicated.
The two categories of biometric solutions are as follows:
• Physical biometric solutions that make use of unique characteristics of human being body parts that include fingerprint, face, iris, vein, DNA etc.,
• Behavioral biometric solutions make use of human being’s behavioral characteristics such as voice, typing speed, a unique way of holding & swiping the phone, heartbeat, hand tremors, finger movements, navigation etc.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a capability possess by the intelligent machine to do the task that is otherwise associated with intelligent human beings. In other words, it can also be defined as the ability of an intelligent machine to replicate the intelligent human behavior.
AI added another milestone in the access control. It enables to store the biometric information into the database, analyze them and then transform into machine understandable language to take the appropriate action to grant or deny access to the person. For behavioral biometrics, AI helps in selecting datasets of human behavior for analyzing them and then raises an alarm on any deviation with the help of machine learning algorithms.
AI with biometric technology use in the corporate world, government organizations, residential societies, banking industries & so forth and raised the level of security. It is observed that the combination generally uses for mass surveillance and remote authentication.
In the end, it can be concluded that the duo looks promising to be deployed for improved security. It has escalated the arms race between several high-profile tech companies, with some smaller firms getting in on the action to deploy them.
