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US Conference

We held an excellent online meeting, part of our US Conference, online in March and postponed the second part to September 2020. This event will now also take place online on 21 September 2020. You can register to attend here.

ID@Borders Conference

Due to pressing conversations on border management, we held an online meeting for our borders community in April. We have moved our 8th annual ID@Borders Conference to 20-21 October in London. For the first time it will co-locate with our annual Biometrics Institute Congress. You can register to attend here.

Other 2020 events

We have added new online meetings to our existing calendar of events. Please visit our up-to-date events pages to view the rest of our plans for 2020.

Members can watch the recordings of all our online meetings and download the available presentations here.

These are uncertain times for us all but I know many of you share our belief that it has never been more important to continue our conversations on biometrics. We will be working harder than ever to ensure this can still happen.

Many thanks

Biometrics Institute team

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2015 Full Report

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It has been a fantastic 15-year journey for me with the Biometrics Institute. You can listen to my podcast here.

Over 230 membership organisations to date representing 30 countries and over 950 individuals. I have worked very hard to building this global membership network. When I joined the Institute in May 2002 in Australia, we had 12 founding members.

In 2006, we launched a Privacy Code for Australia which has now developed into our Privacy Guidelines.

In 2011, I gained the trust of our Board of Directors to set up an office in London. In these past 6 years, our membership doubled.

This year I was invited to the United Nations Security Council – Counter-terrorism Exectutive Directorate to represent our industry. We are now discussing a project to develop best-practice recommendations for the use of biometrics to counter terrorism.

We signed an MoU with the UN Migration Agency to build stronger collaboration on border management and people movement issues, reaching out into the less developped economies.

And next week we are holding our Biometrics Congress 2017, organised by the Biometrics Institute at the beautiful Australia House.

It is fantastic to have the support of our members to promote the responsible use of biometrics through best-practices and collaboration when we are faced by such a fast-paced industry where legislation and standards can hardly keep up.

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The group that has claimed success, the Chaos Computer Club from Germany, has been involved in similar biometric attacks on different fingerprint sensors going back to at least 2004.

Biometric authentication has the potential to ease the burden of security given its simplicity and usability, particularly when compared to mobile devices with little or no protection. However, as with all security measures, it has vulnerabilities.

“This attack technique of presenting a fake biometric to a biometric sensor for identity theft or concealing one’s identity is commonly known as spoofing,” states Ted Dunstone, Chair of the Biometrics Institute Vulnerability Assessment Expert Group (BVAEG), “and such attacks are well known and studied.”

There are a number of technologies, both software and hardware, that can be used to detect such spoofing attacks. The international community is addressing this emerging area of technology through an ISO/IEC standards project to develop data interchange formats and testing principles for software and hardware used to combat biometric spoofing (called “spoof detection” or “presentation attack detection”).

“The BVAEG – a subcommittee of the independent Biometrics Institute – consists of many of the most experienced experts in this area from around the world,” says Isabelle Moeller, Chief Executive of the Biometrics Institute, “the BVAEG mission is to raise awareness of the need for vulnerability detection to be included with biometric devices, to promote standards, enhance privacy protection,  performance measures and testing, and to help facilitate the dissemination of new research or findings in this area.”

“The iPhone fingerprint spoof uses a number of steps including laser printing the fingerprints in high resolution onto transparent film, etching onto a printed circuit board and using a latex material to make a fake fingerprint,” explains Tsutomu Matsumoto from Yokohama National University, a member of BVAEG, “the current attack requires the lifting and processing of a high quality latent fingerprint at high resolution in order to make a successful spoof. These factors should be considered when assessing this attack’s impact under realistic usage scenarios.”

Ralph Breithaupt from the Federal Ministry for Information Security, Germany who is also a member of BVAEG confirms that “all security technologies have flaws, including PINs and passwords, and when subject to a determined attack none will guarantee absolute security. Security relies not only on one factor but combines them, such as relying on a PIN and fingerprint.”

The Biometrics Institute encourages manufacturers of equipment that include biometrics sensors to be proactive in adopting spoof detection technology to maximise the chance of successfully rejecting a biometric spoof, and also recommends government agencies and top-level decision makers be aware of the need for appropriate biometric vulnerability testing and certification as they consider both the risk and the convenience of the security mechanism(s).

A next workshop of the BVAEG will be held in Gaithersburg in late March 2014. Email Isabelle to find out more.

The Biometrics Institute is the independent and impartial international forum for biometrics users and other interested parties with currently over 130 member organisations including government departments, financial services institutions, health service providers and also vendors of biometric products and services.

It has been established to promote the responsible use of biometrics technologies. The Biometrics Institute has offices in Australia and the UK.

For enquiries contact: Isabelle Moeller |  Email: manager@biometricsinstitute.org

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Biometrics Institute Industry Tracker 2017

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Biometrics Institute Industry Survey 2016

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Biometrics Institute Industry Survey 2015

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