Learning About Identity and Access Management Controls

In this section, we are going to look at identity and management controls, starting with biometrics and moving on to security tokens and certificates. Let us first look at biometric controls followed by identity management using certificates.

Biometrics

Biometrics is a method of authentication using an individual's characteristics, for example, using a fingerprint as everyone's fingerprints are very different. In 1892, Inspector Eduardo Alvarez from Argentina made the first fingerprint identification in the case against Francisca Rojas, who had murdered her two sons and cut her own throat in an attempt to place blame on another, but the inspector proved that...