Today, biotechnology has great use in the provision of immediate access to authoritative information on critical industry developments and covers industry on a global scale. This is the case for all end users, developers, vendors, integrators or investors (Hebda and Czar, 2009). There are a variety of biometrics today which includes fingerprint technology, smart cards, hand geometry, biometric solutions in banking, biometrics and law and order, iris scanning, face recognition, keystroke dynamics and standards and testing. However, the success of biometrics use is dependent on retention of the identification and authentication information. In this case, there are questions on the loss of dignity and privacy of personal information.
In organizations, employees tend to feel that leaving such systems contain critical and confidential information, it means that to user has to identify themselves each and every time they have to use it to avoid unauthorized system access. For biometric authentication, the user does not require identification any time an eligible individual uses a service. This exposes an organization unauthorized users and risks of exposing private information.
To begin with, a policy that requires regular changing of passwords is more of a maintenance strain rather than a help for security. The strain is experienced by the system administrator as well as the employees (Mahoney and Ward, 2010). System administrators have to always keep track of new passwords and before they master them, the have to be changed again. On the other hand, employees do have to keep up with the changed passwords such that they end up writing them down as they don’t have enough time to remember them. They are often being bothered t re-learn another one each and every time. This can also encourage the misuse of organizational email accounts as one can remain undetected since they can do so forever.
References
Hebda, T., & Czar, P. (2009). Handbook of informatics for nurses & health care
professionals. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Mahoney, C. R., & Ward, K. (2010). Keys to successfully selecting, negotiating, and acquiring a PACS. AAOS Now, 4(3), 30.
