biometric authentication
Noun
Meaning
the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics
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A 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.
negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification
if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot