authentication

Biometrics
The use of a personal feature—e.g., face, hand, fingerprint, signature, voice, iris, or other highly specific indicator—to verify a person’s identity, and restrict access to private information to authorised persons.

Informatics
Confirmation of a user's identity, generally through a user name and password.

authentication

Biometrics The use of a personal feature, eg, face, hand, fingerprint, signature, voice, iris, or other highly specific indicator to verify a person's identity, and restrict access to information to authorized persons; confirmation of a user's identity, generally through user name and password or biometric characteristics. See Biometrics. Cf Authorization.

au·then·ti·ca·tion

(aw-thenti-kāshŭn)

Protocol to confirm the identify someone logged onto a computer.

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Download the Amped Authenticate Datasheet - http://dl.ampedsoftware.com/amped-authenticate-flyer-en.pdf

Amped Software Launches Solution for Forensic Image Authentication and Tamper Detection to Address the Increasing Need for Trustworthy Digital Multimedia Data

Evidence: A signature authenticates a written document by identifying the signer with the signed document.

Electronic signature technologies: a tutorial. (Cover Story)

AimBrain, a next-generation biometric identity as a service company, helps financial institutions easily, securely, and accurately authenticate their mobile banking users.

InAuth, AimBrain to bring 6-factor mobile authentication solution to financial services providers

To determine the most suitable tasks, brainwaves of test subjects were measured performing seven different mental activities to authenticate their identity.

New inexpensive brainwave sensors could help discard typed passwords

Similarly, if the party offering the evidence is unable to self-authenticate it pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence Rule 902, the party can still attempt to authenticate it under the general provision of Rule 901.

Ninth Circuit finds that Immigration Judge improperly failed to consider asylum applicant's own testimony as a means of authenticating a foreign government document: asylum applicant may resort to any recognized procedure for document authentication, including the procedures permitted under FRE 901, and is not restricted to recognized procedures for authenticating foreign public documents

Instead, we contracted with Experian, one the nation's largest credit bureaus, to authenticate PINs using the variables of name, date of birth and Social Security number.

Signing on to ESIGN: electronic signatures bring new convenience to admissions and financial aid transactions

Merchants authenticate personal checks through check verification companies.

Authentication technology: identity theft and account takeover

It's asking whether chemical analyses can help authenticate where a wine was made and pin down the elusive nature of terroir.

The World of Wine

Summary: Arizona [United States], August 9 (ANI): Researchers have invented a new method of authentication which will identify a person's hand gestures or fingers making a motion in the air to authenticate their identity.

New authentication method will use hand gestures as password