Biometric safe companies typically tolerate a 1% error. That means that 1/100 times, an intruder could find a glitch in the system and access the contents of your safe. For many people, 1% is understandably not enough security. For them, it is important to choose a biometric device that requires multi-factor authentication for access. This will provide a more appropriate level of security.
Standard biometric safes come with a single fingerprint or retina scan. Shockingly, many of these can be fooled by photocopy of the registered fingerprint or retina. This means that will a cheap photocopier and a blank piece of paper, along with a little field work, intruders could steal anything valuable in your safe, or access your home security system if it is operated by a standard biometric design.
Multi-factor authentication is the answer to these problems. In multi-factor authentication, access isn’t granted until multiple needs are met. Perhaps there’s a password or passcode that needs to be typed in. Or a code word or phrase that the system analyzes first for the correct words and then for the registered voice inflexion. There are also the biometric components – the fingerprint or whole hand scan, one or two eye scan, or whole face scan. Some units also require you to present a badge for scanning that came with the device.
Layers, even redundant ones, of security are important here. By themselves, any one of these requirements could be fairly simply to crack. But the combination of them will really make trying to break into a multi-factor authentication biometric safe quite a challenge.
With a more sophisticated safe employing multi-factor authentication, you can rest assured that the contents of your safe are protected. Perhaps you’re even encouraged to explore the application of these ideas to your home or office security, because you can’t really put a price on being safe.
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