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www.AmericanSecurityToday.com April 2019 - Edition 43 With enormous improvements in new contactless authentication and screening methods being faster, more secure, secure , and in a Post COVID-19 World, safer for users in- dustry experts believe ‘no ‘ no contact’ technologies will be the clear trend of the future. future . gies are slightly more secure and marginally more healthy Standard card reader technolo- than card technologies in many gies continue to be a mainstay cases. in the foreseeable future but smart phone and biometrics Card technologies are improv- based authentication readers ing for hygiene concerns. will be more common as their Biometric devices that require technology cost comes down, touch will lose some favor as and as reliability, security and facial recognition readers, hand geometry wave readers and oth- wide acceptance increases. er new contactless technologies Smartphone based technolo- gain a larger share of the work. work 23 Conclusions