But those are combined with high-tech locks, such as biometric security systems (think fingerprint and retina scanners).
High-tech security firms are also expected to gain from explosive-detection gadgets produced by InVision Technologies to Visionics' biometric security systems.
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At night and on weekends, when its 75 young customers weren't around, the center installed new chairs, desks, floors, fixtures and a biometric security system that allows parents in the door only after they place a finger on a sensor.
Apple is not the only company that recognizes the use of fingerprint and biometric interfaces in device security and mobile payments.
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Another company to watch is Inside Secure (ISDCF) which offers fingerprint biometric solutions as well as other security solutions for Android.
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Philips says there's huge biometric potential for use by homeland security types to identify people or to replace credit cards, since no two vein structures are alike.
The UK will move towards an integrated electronic border security system, linking biometric passports and visas with electronic checks on entry and exit, helping to track and intercept terrorists and criminals and to stop illegal immigration.
Since the system is designed to determine the legal status of workers based on names, Social Security numbers and potentially personal biometric identifiers of every working age adult in America, worries about the system becoming a tool for ever-expanding federal purposes are legitimate.
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E-borders which was primarily meant to improve security, when combined with a biometric identity card scheme, began collecting details of passenger and crews for inbound flights from outside the EU at nine airports in March.
The Senate bill calls for tamper-proof Social Security cards and pushes to collect more biometric information from immigrants, but it stops short of requiring a full-fledged biometric I.
Mr Harris predicts that as confidence in biometric technologies increases, banks will start to peel away other security layers.
Look, the data that will be held on computers in respect of ID cards is the data that is already held by everybody for everybody in respect of your passport, with the addition of biometric data, fingerprints for example or irises which ensures better the security of this data.
Research carried out by Axel Munde of the German Information Security Agency, to be published next month, found that many biometric systems available in Germany could be fooled.
However there are still a number of reservations that biometric systems will provide an enhanced passenger experience at airports and maintain high standards of security.
Their innovations range from cloud development tools and Big Data security and analysis applications, to search engines for voice recordings, behavioral biometric solutions for fighting fraud, open source technologies, and personal financial management tools for young people.
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On Thursday, electoral commission head Kwadwo Afari-Gyan told the BBC that the biometric fingerprinting system had been extensively tested over two months and again earlier this week, when security personnel voted.
Security flaws in commercial software and hardware were popular topics at camp workshops, which included discussions on "Biometric Insecurity" and the construction of Windows NT Shell Code for Buffer Overflow Exploits.
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