After
introducing the Fingerprint scanner to its new release, Samsung next
plans to add IRIS scanning technology to its future smartphones to
better improve the security of smartphones and for being more innovative
too.
According to a report released by The Wall Street Journal,
Samsung senior Vice President Rhee In-jong told analysts and investors
at a forum in Hong Kong that the company is planning to incorporate
biometric sensors such as eye scanners into more of its products as a
part of its enterprise security software.
“We're looking at various types of biometric mechanisms and one of things that everybody is looking at is iris detection,” Rhee said.
The move is no doubt in order to bring an added layer of security to its
devices. A Smartphone with an eye-scanning feature would most likely to
be used in the front-facing camera to scan the unique patterns of the
user’s iris and once the pattern get matched with the already stored
user’s iris image in the phone, the user will get an access to its
device.
Rhee heads the company’s Knox security platform which is a mobile
security software designed to make Samsung phones more secure in the
workplace. He said that out of the 87 million devices that come embedded
with Samsung Knox, only 1.8 million are actively using the Knox, including banks, healthcare and financial companies as well.
The figure is just a fraction of the actually distributed devices and
the company is looking forward to increase its number of clients by
focusing on the various new authentication methods for having a wider
distribution. So, the technology will likely to integrate with the
company's Knox security platform.
“We, as a market leader, are following the market trend,” he
said, emphasizing his point on eye scanning feature will more likely to
be available for adoption in high-end phones first.
Apple first brought the fingerprint scanning technology into its iPhone
5, and after seven months, Samsung added the same biometric security
feature to its new release Android
based Samsung Galaxy S5 Smartphones. But, this time Samsung is ready to
give a tough competition to Apple by offering more advanced biometric
features.
With the company’s already existing security features such as login
passwords, PINs, and gestures, the IRIS scanner feature will definitely
provide high security parameters to Samsung smartphones.
HACKING EYEBALLS TO BYPASS IRIS SCANNER
Biometric information can't be stolen in a phishing attack, for
instance, because the unique information is physically attached to the
each user. But, like hackers found a way to fool the Apple as well as Galaxy S5's fingerprint scanner using a fake fingerprint, the IRIS scanners can also be fooled.
In 2012, At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, a researcher
demonstrated that how an attacker can create create the spoofed template
of IRIS of a real person, that could be used to fool the scanners.
Do you think Samsung will be able to deliver a hack-proof eyes iris scanner system in its next Galaxy smartphone?
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