Biometric technologies are automated methods of recognising a person based on their physiological or behavioural characteristics. Examples of features measured are face, fingerprint, iris, voice and typing pattern recognition. As the level of online fraud increases, the need for highly secure authentication technologies is duly apparent and Biometric technologies are becoming the foundation of highly secure solutions.

Utilizing biometrics for personal authentication is convenient and accurate. Biometrics is linked solely to a particular individual in contrast to passwords or tokens which may be used by someone other than the authorized user. It is convenient for the user as they are not required to carry anything as biometrics is something the user is. Where maximum security is required, a combination of password (something you know), tokens (something you have) and biometrics (something you are) is often deployed.

Keystroke Biometric and Typeprint Recognition

Typeprint is a statistically unique signature created from the typing patterns of a person. Like fingerprint and voiceprint, typeprint can also be used as a biometric signature to uniquely identify and verify a person. Typeprint recognition is based on the science of Keystroke Biometrics.

Keystroke Biometric is comparative to other biometric solutions

Scientific research has proven that Keystroke Biometric is reliable and accurate. In 1980, A National Bureau of Standards (NBS) study concluded that keystroke biometric authentication achieved at least 98% accuracy. Since then, the technology of keystroke biometric has further improved to the level that is comparative to other biometric solutions such as, fingerprint and voiceprint.

*FAR – False Acceptance Rate
*FRR – False Rejection Rate

TypeSense is a software-only solution

TypeSense is a software-only authentication solution based on typeprint recognition that uses keystroke dynamics to accurately identify a user by the way they type characters across a keyboard. Unlike fingerprint and voiceprint solutions, that require a special hardware reader, TypeSense does not need special hardware – it uses the standard computer keyboard.

TypeSense is ideal for Web applications

The ideal web application should require no additional software other than the standard web browser, and the ideal authentication should require no user interaction. TypeSense meets both requirements. TypeSense is a zero-footprint solution that is totally transparent. Users will be presented with the standard login interface as if the two-factor authentication did not exist.