Tested and Trusted
Signatures have been the most widely accepted proof of intent for centuries. Consequently, signatures will remain the standard biometric for proving one’s intent in financial, real estate and other authentication dependent transactions.
Forget Your Password
You don’t forget your signature. According to statements from American companies, between 30 and 50% of all helpdesk calls are password/PIN-related. Every helpdesk call costs a company between 35 US-Dollar and 80 US-Dollar. In 2000, the Gartner Group estimated annual administration costs in large corporations – up to 340 US-Dollar per user.
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Eliminate Counterfeiting
Illegal access to secured networks is on the rise. Most cases occur due to password theft. Biometric characteristics of signatures such as writing pressure, speed and acceleration cannot be spied out.
- Debit card fraud is mostly the result of misappropriated PINs, spies at ATMs and P.O.S. terminals, social hacking and careless passing to (assumed) trusted third parties.
- Passwords are increasingly stored on PCs and as a result are subject to attacks from viruses and worms carrying spy software, a program that copies passwords by recording keystrokes.
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Acceptance
There are many reasons, why signatures are the best and most popular means of authentication: Signature is an active biometric characteristic that is never given by accident. A signature is characterizedby personal physiological and biomechanical capabilities and individual learning processes. That is what significantly differentiates a signature from passive biometrics in body characteristics such as finger, hand, face or even iris.
Every signature is unique. The comparison automatically takes into account the natural variations in the characteristics of a signer.
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