INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology
Samsung becomes first to achieve
FIDO biometric certification
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T
he FIDO Alliance has announced
that the Samsung Galaxy S10 and
S10+ smartphones are the first
products to feature certification from the
FIDO Alliance’s new Biometric Component
Certification Program. This certification
validates that the new in-display fingerprint
recognition system meets industry
standards for user verification and detecting
presentation (or ‘spoof’) attacks.
“As mobile devices increasingly become
our primary means of storing sensitive
information and conducting critical
transactions, the industry leaders in FIDO
Alliance have determined that the market
needs a standard-based means to assess
the efficacy of biometric certification
components – which is why we recently
launched our Biometric Component
Certification Program,” said Brett McDowell,
Executive Director of FIDO Alliance. “By being
first to market with FIDO Alliance biometric
component certification for its new line of
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Galaxy devices, Samsung is positioning the
Galaxy S10 and S10+ as the industry best
practice for biometric-enabled devices, while
at the same time validating the necessity
of our programme to provide this important
benchmark to the marketplace.”
The FIDO Alliance developed the first
biometric certification programme to fill a
gap in the market which previously required
biometric vendors to repeatedly prove
performance for each customer. This ability
to test and certify a biometric system only
once results in substantial time and cost
savings for vendors and gives customers
a standardised way to trust the biometric
systems they are relying upon for fingerprint,
iris, face and/or voice recognition. The
programme utilises accredited independent
labs to certify that biometric subcomponents
meet globally-recognised performance
standards for biometric recognition
performance and Presentation Attack
Detection (PAD).
“Protection of customers’ data and privacy
on our devices is of utmost importance
to Samsung, which is why we went
through the FIDO Biometric Component
Certification Program,” said Henry Jong-
Hyeon Lee, SVP and Head of Mobile
Security Technologies group, IT and Mobile
Communications Division, Samsung
Electronics. “We are very pleased to be the
first device manufacturer to have qualified
and completed the programme, which
provides the industry with a strong baseline
to assess performance of biometric
authentication components.”
“The FIDO Alliance Biometric Component
Certification programme fills an important gap
in our industry as biometrics expand out of
the enterprise and government marketplace
into the mainstream consumer electronics
marketplace,” said Dr Kevin Wilson of iBeta.
“We are very pleased to be the first accredited
lab to perform biometric certification
assessments under this programme.” n
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