(forking the thread here..) Biometrics are still the new hotness out in North America. Cologix whom I deal with in Canada has a dozen and a half odd POPs in canada/usa and I think has fingerprinting at all sites. If the current best operating practice is to avoid biometrics, why are they still in use out here? Has anyone gotten the message? Is anyone in North America ripping them out yet? Other factors include your country's privacy regulations for storing irreplaceable personal information, the burden of which might not be worth the security 'benefit'. /kc On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 04:46:02PM -0400, William Herrin said:
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:32 PM, J??rg Kost <jk@ip-clear.de> wrote:
Do you guys still at least have biometric access control devices at your Level3 dc? They even removed this things at our site, because there is no budget for a successor for the failing unit. And to be consistent, they event want to remove all biometric access devices at least across Germany.
Hi J??rg,
IMO, biometric was a gimmick in the first place and a bad idea when carefully considered. All authenticators can be compromised. Hence, all authenticators must be replaceable following a compromise. If one of your DCs' palm vein databases is lost, what's your plan for replacing that hand?
Regards, Bill Herrin
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