Passwords To Be Replaced With Biometrics & EyeVerify

Passwords have been the primary means of securing computers, emails and web sites along with a large number of other things. And that has been the first line of defense for way too many years. As we gained more and more access points for web sites or emails, the goal of having a unique password for each one became a major problem and so many have duplicated passwords from time to time. There are even some who use the same password on every site or email account. And that is a bad thing if one site gets hacked and they have access to your password. Technology needs to evolve to something far better than what we currently have and Biometrics is the real answer for the future.

Things continually change as technology improves and a company called EyeVerify may be holding the most promise to moving us from the problems of remembering passwords and typing them in to a logon screen. Your eyes are unique to you as an individual and you do not have to remember a password. And with the technology they are using, they can prove who you are by combining several different features of your eyes. Those features include both the Iris in eye and the blood vessels of the eye.

Some have indicated that biometric scanning of the eyes can be fooled, but if the scanning process is looking at your eyes at different angles, fooling a scanner becomes far more difficult to accomplish. Scanners which can be fooled are not checking for what some refer to as "proof of life". By checking the location of blood vessels of the eyes, they are proving that it is a live person they are working with in combination with the angles of what they are recording.

It is the use of streaming video of your eye to move beyond the single picture for using biometrics which makes this method far more secure than previous methods which are being employed. And that video is key to what the future holds for moving us from the manual entry of passwords to the utilization of biometrics for validation of who you are. Just how soon we might see this kind of technology is not known as EyeVerify is partnering with various companies to move their product forward and into the market. This would be a big improvement over the current layers of security used to secure access to web sites and email. Or even access to your mobile device.