Mobile biometrics as the next killer app!

Here is very interesting work that has some relationship to CEBP given that voice, face. iris or fingerprints can be used.

BIOMIDS' focus is on helping organizations in the healthcare and financial services sector reduce the use of passwords and better leverage their employees' mobile devices. The recent blog post about mobile biometrics being the next killer app seems right on target.

The post seems especially forward looking given recent acquisitions by Apple in fingerprint authentication technology and Facebook with Face.com. One of the obstacles to widespread biometric adoption in the Enterprise has been socialization of the technology. Biometrics needs to be viewed as a better process than the current user name/password processes. It is expected that these big consumer technology companies will help to broadly socialize the use of biometrics over the next couple of years. Of course, the consumerization of IT trend has been with Enterprise CIOs for the past few years. My sense is that CIOs will quickly see the benefit of adding biometrics to improve specific Identification or Authentication business processes within their enterprise.  Given the growing trends with password thefts it is doubtful that CIOs will be hesitant to adopt biometrics within their organizations. Especially since it does double duty...improving the broken username/password process and leveraging the BYOD mobile device trend.