From the course: Web Security: User Authentication and Access Control

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Biomertric authentication

Biomertric authentication

- [Instructor] So far, we've mostly considered multi-factor authentication using the knowledge and ownership factors. In this movie, we'll discuss the inherence factor and look at biometric authentication. Biometric authentication measures one or more physical traits of a person's body in order to authenticate them. In the word biometric, the bio is for body, and the metric is for measuring. It's pretty synonymous with the inherence authentication factor which is something the user is. The most common examples of biometric authentication are the Touch ID and Face ID technologies used on Apple iPhones which other phone makers have since imitated. If you touch an iPhone that has Touch ID, it reads your fingerprint and compares it against authorized fingerprints. If you want to unlock a phone that has Face ID, the camera measures certain features of your face and compares the results to measurement stored for authorized…

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