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crophones and automatic noise sup- clear communications when worn on either shoulder, center chest, or over the shoulder water for up to 4 hours controls the channels of the user’s without having to hunt under my bunker coat for it,” said Lieutenant David Hudik, Elgin Fire Department. “With improved water porting, you upside down for fast water drainage while maintaining clear voice communications.” “Customer input is essential to our design and the Elgin Fire Department was right at our side as we tested Rodriguez, vice president, Devices lutions. “The latest XE radio means firefighters will be able to talk with other first responders at the scene and across municipalities and regions. The new rugged RSM means they can communicate clearly in the loudest fireground environments, including blaring horns and wailing sirens.” will be available in North America. Ensuring biometric data is useless to identity thieves Continued from page 5 resulting in enhanced, individualized security, allowing individuals to fully control their real identity. Instead of the system blocking the legitimate user — an unintended consequence of blocking an attacker — the system thus returns a higher ROI for both the consumer and system administrator. More Robust Biometric Templates with Enhancements Resources RSM video XE500 RS About Motorola Solutions ates innovative, mission-critical communication solutions and services that help public safety and commercial customers build safer cities and thriving communities. For ongoing news, visit http://newsroom.motorolasolutions.com or subscribe to a news feed. 50 It may be desirable in some application-dependent situations to construct and enforce the use of enhanced biometric templates. The use of a “super template” that uniquely combines biometric data with other or other out-of-band data — enables the system to recognize and reject a biometric template that was created from a stolen fingerprint image. Templates can reside on a card or chip or in a smartphone or personal wearable. In the case of a government or civil application, this approach would prevent any would-be attacker from simply using the stolen biometric data, alone, to compromise either physical or data security. In the case of commercial mar- might see an institution deploying a similar approach to protect user identity during online transactions. As some do today, institutions could enable multi-factor authentication and require that both the biometric and some other data be provided. Alternatively, they could enroll biometric data and then “sign and encrypt” the template with unique or closed-system data. The creation of a guaranteed unique “super template” might combine stan- data. This is the approach that HID Global takes with its Secure Identity for storing and transporting identity information in a single object. SIOs can be deployed in any number of
form factors including contactless and contact smart cards, smart phones of these items and the data associated with them are, in turn, only associated with the owner’s identity. The SIO is digitally signed using proven cryptographic techniques as part of a seamless and secure process. Various data objects can be added, encrypted, and signed – i.e., biometric data, as well as data for computer log-on and other secure identity applications. Then, all content is secured with a wrapper and bound to the device with another signature. Identity Proofing Lastly, it’s important to remember that the chain of trust is only as strong as the weakest link. The biometric solution used in identity-proofing must interoperate with trusted devices at each verification point. An example of this approach is HID Global’s a device-independent, trusted physical identity verification process. Additionally, the physical devices themselves must be tamper-resistant to ensure that all transaction integrity is preserved. The HID Global Lumidigm biometric authenticator is a good example of this approach: tion-enabled with various tamper resistance and detection capabilities that protect the integrity of the communication between the client and the sensor. served end-to-end if the goal is, for example, to simplify financial transactions for users while eliminating fraud for financial institutions. device connects to the institution’s systems through a cryptographically secure channel protected by hardware tamper detection and response, which establishes trust between the device and the institution’s systems independent of intermediate systems and networks. be able to perform a live scan of a finger with strong liveness detection to ensure that the person making the transaction is who they claim to be (that is, the same person that enrolled And finally, by extension, if a card, authentication are used for authentication, each must also be confirmed by the biometric -- a biometric that is associated with a specific individual through a robust identity-proofing process at enrollment. This ensures that true identity verification has been performed and maintained in a trusted manner. Moving Forward balance of convenience and security because they are simple to use and increasingly more robust and reliable. cation method that “binds” a user’s 51 digital credentials to a person. As such, biometrics is playing an important role in eliminating digital identity theft in today’s increasingly complex and vulnerable environment. Making security more robust and reliable without adding complexity becomes more complex and open to attacks, we simply have to find a way to enhance both trust and user convenience. Combining the universality and sophistication of biometrics with things we have (like personal devices, one important step. The other is to rely on vendor technologies and solutions that can effectively guarantee a high level of trust without raising the complexity for the user. Regretfully, we need to accept the fact that biometrics or other personal data cannot be completely protected from a breach. All we can do is design systems that preserve the integrity of user’s true identities - even in situa- perhaps the best way to discourage any future breaches is to simply render the stolen data useless to anyone except the legitimate owner.
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