What benefits/cost savings will biometric provide?
a. Biometrics usefulness varies from application to application. To ascertain its true benefit, one must first create and understand the operational requirements of the application. It can provide an automated means for identification of an individual or verification of a claimed identity. Before making a decision, one must be sure that this task will meet the determined or desired operational requirements. As a matter of fact, biometrics can potentially provide cost savings through relocating security resources or reducing the cost associated with password maintenance, or it could cause extra expenses by highlighting problems that were missed previously. The cost benefits differs from application it application.
