Provider of biometric solutions intended to be a recognized industry leader in biometric identity management technology. The company offers a wide range of enterprise-ready, turnkey fingerprint, finger vein, iris and palm vein biometric software and hardware solutions, enabling to deliver a suite of innovative cloud and mobile solutions with robust identity management technology to prevent fraud, protect assets and save money.
What is a Cloud-Based Biometric Solution and How Does It Work?
Cloud-based biometric authentication is becoming more common in cloud services, owing to the fact that biometric credentials are more difficult to breach than standard password-based verification. Because of challenges with permit deployment, cloud-based biometrics deployment is becoming increasingly popular. Cloud-based biometric solutions such as CloudABIS are projected to dominate the biometric sector in the next years. In this article, we will go over all you need to know about cloud-based biometrics.
What is cloud-based biometrics?
Cloud-based biometric solutions authenticate and grant access to users by using an image or template of uniquely human traits such as fingerprints, facial recognition, iris recognition, and others. At registration, a user must enter a single or many biometric features that will be saved as templates on the cloud’s server. The most impressive feature of cloud-based biometrics is that it encrypts the fingerprint templates and images provided by the user each time they want to verify their identity.
The cloud-based solution allows you to use shared adjustable resources such as storage, networks, servers, services, and applications on-demand, effortlessly, and from any location. Many firms are migrating and integrating their biometric identification management systems into the cloud due to the multiple benefits that cloud platforms provide. Cloud biometrics are easier to adopt than on-premises biometric solutions. With API integration, the cloud-based biometrics solutions can easily be linked with any existing web or desktop application. M2SYS’ CloudABIS is a cloud-based biometric solution designed to make biometric services more affordable and accessible.
How biometric cloud solutions work
One of the key reasons for biometric authentication’s efficacy is that it is based on each person’s unique human traits. Biometric technology makes use of distinguishing characteristics such as fingerprints, facial recognition, and iris recognition. The cloud is used for security reasons, as hacking a cloud-based solution is a difficult operation. Biometric solutions use face recognition, fingerprint recognition, and other modalities.
The fingerprint, on the other hand, is more widely used. One should be aware that biometric authentication started with fingerprints, and as technology evolved, face recognition became a part of biometric authentication as well. Fingerprints have ridges and valleys that are unique to each individual, which is why they were the first method of authentication used in biometric authentication. Multimodal biometric authentication is becoming more widespread as a result of cloud-based biometric systems such as CloudABIS. The cloud-based biometric solution works in three easy steps:
Integration:
If you wish to integrate biometric technology into an existing system, you must first integrate Web API. CloudScanr SDK may be used to employ a biometric capturing tool. Once the application is ready, you can start enrolling users.
Enroll:
You must enroll the user into the system using a biometric scanner device, depending on the modality you have chosen. The biometric data will be captured by the device and stored in the cloud. The information will be encrypted and stored securely in the cloud.
Verify:
After being enrolled in the system, the user can be verified using the modality they choose throughout the enrollment process.
This is how simple cloud biometrics is, and you don’t require enormous infrastructures or maintenance expenditures to run the system. Let’s have a look at some of the benefits of employing cloud biometric services.
Advantages of cloud-based biometrics
The cloud biometric system provides significant advantages over on-premise deployment. You no longer need to carry a large amount of data on your back because it is all safely saved in the cloud. Here are some other advantages of employing cloud-based biometrics:
Secure:
Threats on the device do not affect cloud-based biometric identification or execution. The device acts as a conduit or facilitator for hardware-independent biometric processing. The device’s security is handled by the cloud. Biometric identification technology in the cloud is more difficult for an attacker to reverse-engineer than on-device verification.
Scalable:
When adopting a cloud-based solution, scaling the service based on demand is simple. It makes no difference what size user you are when using CloudABIS. You can easily start with just 10 users and scale up as your activities expand.
Cheapest:
Cloud-based biometrics is the most cost-effective alternative because it does not require any technical infrastructure to operate. Because everything is housed and handled in the cloud, there are no maintenance costs.
Biometric implementation was a difficult task a few years ago. Biometrics can now be utilized by anyone thanks to cloud-based biometric services. You can contact us if you wish to add biometric functionality to your application and facilitate API access.
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M2SYS selects Suprema fingerprint scanner for its cloud-based biometric software solution
Suprema partners can now take advantage of the M2SYS CloudABIS solutions suite to ease development and implementation efforts required for projects that use Suprema biometric hardware.
M2SYS’ biometric identification software has over 300 million enrolled users in projects across more than 100 countries.
The company’s CloudABIS is a suite of cloud-based biometric software solutions designed to mitigate the challenges and costs related to developing, deploying, and maintaining a biometric software system.
CloudABIS can be rapidly integrated into any software to match millions of ISO fingerprint templates per second for fast 1:N matching and de-duplication requirements.
Using the M2SYS cloud infrastructure, organizations can implement an enterprise-level biometric matching system within hours by simply connecting to the Internet.
“Many biometric projects fail because of roadblocks, resource constraints, licensing issues, technical problems, or many other factors related to building, deploying, and maintaining the biometric software,” said Mizan Rahman, founder of M2SYS. “Our new CloudABIS suite of cloud-based biometric software solutions was developed based on 15 years of experience in biometric technology to meet our continued goal of eliminating these headaches with a modern and innovative approach. Now, all Suprema customers have the freedom and flexibility to easily and affordably implement their fingerprint readers without limitations.”
Suprema offers a suite of fingerprint readers that meet the needs of any biometric project.
“The integration of Suprema fingerprint scanners with M2SYS CloudABIS is an ideal combination of best-of-breed solutions in biometrics identification,” said Bogun Park, CEO at Suprema ID Inc. “To maximize the benefits of M2SYS’s cloud based solution, Suprema devices such as the BioMini Slim 2 will provide CloudABIS users with the best fingerprint image quality even under harsh conditions and mobile environments.”
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M2SYS Technology Information
M2SYS provides enterprise multi-modal biometric solutions that enable our customers and partners to easily utilize or integrate the right form of biometric technology for their needs. Our core focus is identity management in workforce management, healthcare and large government projects together with a unique biometric software development kit (SDK) that allows developers to instantly add biometric recognition to any software application. Our technology accelerates the adoption of biometric identification leading to a faster and more widespread delivery of its many benefits.
The hub of our biometric technology platform is the M2SYS Hybrid Biometric Platform™, a multi-modal biometric software system that supports several types of biometric modalities, including fingerprint, finger vein, palm vein, iris, and facial recognition. This flexibility produces near 100% read rates with a single integration into a single biometric software system and eliminates the risks that are associated with being locked in to one particular form of biometrics or a single biometric reader. M2SYS takes great pride in delivering leading-edge technology and exceptional service.
We operate in a number of vertical markets with the following breakdown of our products and services... Government Solutions: Automated Biometric Identification Solution (ABIS) SecuredPASS™ - Border Control Solution TrueVoter™ - Voter ID Solution Bio-Hyperserver™ - High Speed Matching & De-Duplication Solution TrueID™ - National ID Card Solution e-Passport e-Police™ - Complete Solution for Law Enforcement CloudABIS™ - ABIS Solution on Cloud Platform Enterprise Solutions: CertisID™ - Solution for Financial & Banking Verticals Hybrid Biometric Platform™ Enterprise Single Sign-On RightPunch™ RightPOS™ TimeShield™ Access Control Solutions M2-PalmAccess™ Palm Vein Access Control M2-EasyAccess™ Fingerprint Access Control
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The Role of Biometrics in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has become a new normal for most of the businesses. Nowadays, businesses of every size and industry are using different cloud computing applications. Gone are those days when cloud computing was an alien technology for a majority of businesses. There is no denial in the fact that cloud computing is the most hyped innovations of the modern-day era which works on the pay as you go model.
There are many advantages offered by cloud computing solutions like high uptime, mobility, reduced cost but one of the biggest challenges to this technology is security. From two-factor authentication to password and IDs, various security layers have been adopted on the cloud platform for enhancing the security of the cloud computing platform but most of them have turned to be ineffective. This is why the use of biometrics in cloud computing is gaining ground in terms of usage because it offers many advantages over traditional cloud security layers.
This blog post addresses the role of biometrics in cloud computing and how it helps in making the cloud system ultra-secured. The Advantage of Biometric over Traditional Authentication Methods
Biometric has the potential of taking cloud computing to the next level as it enhances the overall security of the cloud platform and makes sure that only authorized people get access to the rendered services. In addition to enhanced security and access to only authorized personnel, biometric solution provides reliability and accuracy as well. The biometric system recognizes users on the basis of unique behavioral and psychological characteristics that can never be replicated and that’s why they are much better than traditional authentication methods. This is the reason why more and more businesses are turning to biometric authentication on the cloud platform instead of traditional authentication methods.
How Biometric Authentication is being Used on the Cloud Platform?
One of the main reasons why biometric authentication is so successful is it uses human traits that are unique to each individual. The traits like fingerprints and face recognition are used in biometric authentication and there is no other way one can access the cloud platform. Although both face recognition and fingerprint are used in biometric solution but the later one is more widely used. You should know that the concept of biometric first started with fingerprints and later on with the advancement of technology, face recognition also become a part of biometric authentication. The ridged and valleys of fingerprints are unique to each individual and that’s why it was the first mode of authentication used in biometric authentication.
When it comes to the cloud platform, then the cloud provider enrolls the cloud user in the biometric system for biometric authentication. During the process of authentication, multiple biometric fingerprints are enrolled and then saved in the form of templates at the cloud provider section. In order to access the cloud application, the user is required to provide his fingerprint which is matched with the templates stored by the cloud provider in the biometric system. If the fingerprint provided by the user matches with the templates stored by the cloud provider, then the user is granted access.
This is how the biometric system comes into action whenever a user accesses his cloud application. Upon the completion of successful authentication, the user is redirected to a genuine cloud service platform. It has been seen that users working on a cloud platform with a biometric system have lesser chances of becoming a victim of any type of security breach in comparison to those who use traditional authentication processes. Biometrics is being planned to be implemented to sensitive cloud applications such as QuickBooks cloud hosting to add an extra security for accounting data.
The Different Measures Adopted to Make Biometric Authentication More Secure Encryption method
There is no denial in the fact that biometric solution is one of the most secure authentication methods but if someone gets access to the templates stored by the cloud provider then it can become a very serious problem. This is why the encryption method is used to make sure that even if an unauthorized person gets access to the fingerprints templates, it will be of no use to them. In the encryption method, the fingerprint templates stored at both cloud user and cloud provider’s end is encrypted.
Multi-finger security model
In order to enhance the security in biometric authentication, a system of multi-finger security model is used. In this unique model, the cloud user is required to register three fingerprint templates and then the user chooses a single digit for each fingerprint template. This type of biometric authentication makes cloud platform ultra-secure and words like unauthorized access become meaningless.
Security has been one of the most challenging issues on the cloud computing platform. Many people don’t move to the cloud platform because of the fear of unauthorized access. But with the introduction of biometric authentication on the cloud platform, the chances of unauthorized access are nullified.