Securing our private spaces over e-services we have subscribed to is everybody’s concern. We use e-services for emails, messengers, calls, watching videos, reading content, doing financial transactions and other several things. At present, the best we can do to keep them secure is keep on changing the passwords after some regular time period.

We can also mix alpha numeric to create complex passwords and even have more characters for making it a bit tough for hackers and crackers to break into the private area. But, all this does not make it fool proof.

Biometrics must be used in securing these services. Whether, we use the finger print recognition or iris matching techniques that could be decided after examining financial implications and the affordability by the end user. Another factor that would determine this would be which technique would enable more and more users subscribing to this service.

Well there have been some attempts before of integrating Biometrics with eservice (for emails) by Precise Biometrics, this has not scaled up. The main reason could be very few users were using touch screens or Biometrics enabled devices. With Windows 7 rolling in to the market in 2010, touch screen will reach new heights in computer world. After mobiles welcomed touch screen in 2008 and 2009, 2010 would be witnessing fair penetration of touch screen in the PC segment.

For iris recognition enabled e-services, the market is ripe even at this moment, within web cameras integration becoming standard feature for most of the laptops. But, if we want to have fingerprint based eservices, touch screen will definitely be a driving factor and for that a solution coming from a software vendor like Microsoft can be a major leap. It could really commoditise the technology.

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