Who has never come across the event of forgetting a password? Or having to modify a password and not remember the previous one? Or even having to write your passwords, created so hard to be indecipherable, on a simple sheet of paper. These situations are already quite unpleasant for the economically active population, imagine then, for older people, who see a flood of digital services and how they can help their lives, all protected by a password.
Historically, a very old reference in the use of passwords is the "Shibboleth" incident. This incident, described in the Old Testament in Judges 12:1-15, denotes the use of a word to allow access and distinguish tribes that lived in confrontation.
Since the pronunciation of the word "shibboleth" was only performed perfectly by one tribe, the other ended up pronouncing without some specific phoneme, thus being recognized as fraudsters and promptly executed. In several subsequent historical episodes, pronunciations and passwords were used as a form of identity recognition and access authorization.
A study shows a very high cost of customer support in processes of generating new passwords in case of forgetting or leakage of information to third parties. It also points out that about 50% of the support calls created are for processes linked to such passwords. Combined with this data, there are also other risks associated with the use of passwords in software: weak passwords, password sharing, theft, leaks, etc.
The market is heated with so many offers of digital products and services, accelerated because of the pandemic that started in 2020 worldwide, and with this wave, the market for biometric technologies has warmed as well. Biometrics or even multibiometrics (use of various biometric methods combined) justifies all the pains established in the previous paragraph, in addition to expanding the possibilities when it comes to identification and authorization.
Imagine a world where instead of relying on just one data (authentication factor) that you know (your password), you need to use something you are (your biometrics) and something you have (your own mobile phone)? Did it get more complicated? You didn’t understand? Follow along.
Suppose you decided to go to the movies with your family and friends and for this you start to trace the steps you need for this event to happen: call an Uber driver, buy the ticket to the cinema, buy popcorn etc. For all these services you already have at your disposal an application that allows this, but all require a password for access. What if you could use your mobile phone and take a photo to authenticate your identity on all these services?
Imagine another scenario, where in your work, on a day-to-day basis, you need to make use of various applications, websites, and online services, where they all ask you for a password. What if you could have only one application that would allow integration with all these sites and allow you to perform your authentication by just taking a photo?
The reduction of the operational cost of companies in their products and services and the real possibility of offering them with prices more attractive to the market is by far the largest value proposition when using the concept of passwordless. No possibility of modifying, stealing (with the use of liveness technologies), or the customer sharing information to third parties, such as what happens with passwords. In both the public and private sectors, the leakage of password information often brings a lot of headaches to companies as well as customers.
With the concept of passwordless these concerns no longer make sense, because even with the templates (code that identifies a face) leaked, the technologies of liveliness require each client / citizen to make a photo in real time so that it can be authenticated, in addition to also being able to register which device (mobile, or others) are registered to authenticate a particular individual. Two factors that represent the future of identifications in private areas, computer systems, public services, private, concerts, cinemas etc.
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BioPass ID has technologies that fully embrace the passwordless future.
The Multibiometrics package allows the facial and fingerprint verification of individuals, in addition to providing passive liveness detection.
The Quality package provides the quality measurement required for faces, through the standardization of images with the ICAO standard, in addition to assessing the quality of fingerprints, using the NFIQ index. There are also options that verify, qualify, and optimize images of faces taken in environments with low lighting or image quality, enabling a good capture for checking individuals through images.
BioPass ID delivers the best authentication and secure authorization experience, without friction, without password and the best, with security.
The future of identification has already arrived and digital acceleration in this aspect is indisputable. Forget password, the future is passwordless, contactless and frictionless.
