mobilesecurity.com [London, UK] Industry observers, manufacturers and developers have all predicted that biometrics could have a role to play in the future of mobile security and now independent research is backing them up. New York-based research organisation Heavy Reading has published a report into smartphone biometrics, and its findings are positive.
In the report, named 'Biometrics Offer Promise for More Secure Smartphones’, Heavy Reading consultant Denise Culver looks to biometrics as a 'not if, but when' technology, while pointing to the merger and acquisition movements of the last few months as proof. Such movements certainly include Apple's July 2012 acquisition of AuthenTec, and mobile users can take that acquisition as a strong indicator of the truth in Heavy Reading's statement.
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