Noun
the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics
Source: WordNetA lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people. Kevin Mitnick
negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification Source: Internet
if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot Source: Internet