The Risks of Biometry â€“ Try to Revokeâ€¦

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The Risks of Biometry â€“ Try to Revokeâ€¦

September 25, 2015 Leave a commentCrime, Cybercrime, Industry, TechnologyBy Roger Halbheer

One thing I was always worried about when we talked about biometry: What do you do if the database which stores your credentials gets compromised? Well, it happened: Stolen OPM Fingerprints: What’s the Risk?

I am not aware of any successful and active attack so far as I guess nobody tried to replay the fingerprint but what do we do if this happens? You can hardly revoke your fingerâ€¦. I know, it has to come from a trusted source as the machine asking for authentication has to be know but hey, there are a lot of ways to forge that as well. And then? Well, then we have a problem and most probably go for another authentication methodâ€¦

Or do I misunderstand something?

Roger

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Roger Halbheer

Roger Halbheer is an Executive Security Advisor at Microsoft in EMEA acting as a trusted advisor to CxO. Before that he was a Managing Director at Accenture's Financial Services. Before joining Accenture, he was the Chief Security Officer of Swisscom (Switzerland's largest telecom provider) and the global Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft.