Fraunhofer ICT Group, Chair EAB

Speaker Biograghy: Alexander is CEO of the Fraunhofer ICT Group, Europe's largest research organisation in the area of information technology. Until December 2015 he was head of the Identification and Biometrics Competence Center of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Darmstadt, Germany. Alexander was an active member of the DIN NIA 37 working group on biometrics, as well as a contributor to the WG5 on 'Biometric testing and reporting' of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37. Since 2009 Alexander has been a certified Common Criteria Evaluator (CC 3.1) and a member of IEEE. As a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) he participates in the steering committee of the special group BIOSIG; he also chairs the Biometrics Working Group of TeleTrusT as a deputy. He is co-founder and chair of the European Association for Biometrics.


Day 2 - 16 March
Session:
Aviation & Border Security, Control & Facilitation


14:25 - 14:50 - The proper use of biometrics in ABC
Synopsis: As soon as new technology comes onto the market we tend to over-exaggerate the benefits it will bring. We totally forget to remain critical and sober when analysing the results. This is exactly what happened with the use of biometrics in automated border control gates. No-one asks how this security technology works. We just believe that it makes border control secure. This talk explains what biometrics is really about, and how ABC gates can be properly secured by using automated processes including biometrics.

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