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On Thursday December 1st, LSEC in cooperation with the European Security Innovation Network partners SITC, TeleTrusT and Systematic organized a one day seminar on the development and opportunity of using Biometrics in enterprise or government applications.

Biometrics 2011 : a market perspective, use cases and best practices

In 2008 LSEC organized a one day seminar on status of Biometrics, its evolutions and applicability.
Three years later, the world has evolved again significantly, and more and more organizations are using fingerprint readers, iris-scanners and other biometric authentication technologies on a day to day basis.
Biometrics are being included in electronic ID cards, evolutions in high performance scanners, evolutions in further reducing false positives in finger scans up to video analytics, standards are being discussed, privacy concerns are increasing while biometric data are being sent over the internet, ….
The time is right to re-visit biometrics and get a perspective of the current state-of-the-art, and applicable solutions. How will biometrics be applied in the ever evolving mobile and virtualized world, will we be having a one single sign authentication, and how can privacy enhancing technologies be applied to biometric information.

The focus of the seminar was to find out what the benefits, challenges and business models for applying biometrics could be, what specific applicable solutions might be presented in environments that could be challenging for other types of authentication technologies.
Could biometrics in 2011 be a solution for your situation?

Program Outline

Biometrics 2011 : a market perspective, use cases and best practices

9.30 : Welcome & Registration

9.45 : Opening Notes & Introduction by Ulrich Seldeslachts, CEO LSEC
Coffee continuously available during the morning.

Biometrics in the overall security strategy – where does it belong and when technology makes the difference to add value, and not just be around security.
Ulrich Seldeslachts, LSEC

Biometrics are real, are here to stay
Biometrics solve real business issues and improve security
Technologies have become widespread and continue to improve and evolve
New paradigms are becoming clear
Privacy protection not longer an issue, but still challenging
Standardization drivers

10.05 : Biometrics in electronic documents, identity systems, by Thales

An overview of the application of biometrics in electronic identity systems for documents processing.

10.45 : Addressing border management & security dilemma through consolidation of biometrics and biographic passenger identities or how biometrics can be being used in large scale challenging environments such as airports.
by André Oeyen, Director Biometric Business Development, SITA, Belgium

11.45 : Biometrics in office automation, more specifically: Trusted Office Printing : by Bart Smets CHB and Ilse Borremans, Macro4 : Case CHB – Macro4

12.30 : lunch & networking

13.30 : Using Iris recognition in industrial applications, by George Martin, CEO Smart Sensors

In a world of people movement, interconnection and networking, never has it been more important to know who has access to your assets, whether they are physical assets such as buildings and operational equipment such as plant, process facilities and machinery, or logical assets such as computer and communication systems where vital data, including financial transactions, may be processed and stored.

Biometrics offers a unique opportunity for organisations – both industrial and government – to build infrastructure that can permit or deny access on an automatic basis, according to a set of access permissions, authorisations and hierarchy.

This presentation will explore some of the use cases in this area, and why iris recognition offers a particularly attractive biometric modality.

About : Martin George is CEO of Smart Sensors Limited, based at the University of Bath’s Innovation Centre. The company has developed a class-leading, independent set of algorithms for iris biometrics, with particular application to the field of mobile and small-footprint biometrics. Smart Sensors works closely with iris capture equipment makers and ID Systems Integrators, licensing its algorithms and providing a variety of tools and analytics through which its customers can deploy a strong iris biometric capability.

14.30 : Biometrics, a security enabler – Ronald Huijgens, vice-chairman Dutch Biometric Forum

Director Biometric Technologies, Unisys

The Dutch biometric forum is a foundation that promotes meaningful, safe and reliable use of biometrics. Ronald has many years of experience in providing biometric solutions for companies and governments and has seen the development of the technology, its pro’s and con’s over the last years.
Ronald will be presenting his view on how biometric solutions can be implemented as a security enabler in various contexts and positions. He will be able to present the value of biometrics over and next to other types of security technologies in the space of authentication and identification, in access control and other situation.

15.15 : Coffee Break

15.45 : Security and Privacy challenges with biometric solutions, by Koen Simoens, researcher KU Leuven, COSIC

The future of biometrics, evolutionary landscape, technology perspective, developments in research, industrial and end user challenges

Beyond Performance: Researches Addressing Practical Challenges of Biometrics-Enabled Applications, Bian Yang, Gjovik University College

As a secure and convenient identity authentication means, biometrics’ power in technical performance (accuracy, efficiency, stability, … etc) will obviously give the most important influence to suitability of a biometrics-enabled system to a specific application scenario. However, beyond the technical performance, we are facing various practical challenges (security and privacy, spoofing, scenarios needing new sensing technologies, applications for consumer electronics, … ) that could hinder a biometric system from deployment. This talk will give an overview of such non-technical-performance practical challenges together with some state of art solutions resulting from innovative researches in the relevant fields. Gjøvik University College have been tackling several of these challenges and some recent research results in privacy protection and mobile biometrics applications will be shared with audience. Future research trends will be discussed.

Biography: Dr. Bian Yang is a senior researcher with NISlab, Gjøvik University College, Norway. He received his PhD degree in 2006 from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, and worked with HIT as a researcher from 2005-2007 on media content security. He visited Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt 2003-2005 and involved in the European projects ECRYPT and AXMEDIS. He worked with Thomson Corporate Research (Beijing) on content-based coding 2007-2008. He is with NISlab in Gjøvik since 2008 and focuses his researches in the biometric data security / privacy and interoperability fields and was involved in the European project TURBINE for fingerprint template protection. He is also with Norway Standards in the mirror committee to ISO/IEC SC27. 

16.45 : Panel Discussion
- biometrics ready for today or still for the future
- the business case for biometrics vs other authentication technologies;
- biometrics TCO and other value creation
- crossing the chasm between end users expectations, industrial solutions, R&D and CSI;

17.15 : Closing Reception & Networking

18.30 : Close of Conference

Practical Details

This event took place December 1st, 2011 at the Ubicenter in Leuven, thanks to Verizon Business.

Participation is free when registererd before November 30th, 2011.
Participation fee costs 150 €, unless your organization is Web member of LSEC, Core or Expert Member of LSEC, Member of SITC, TeleTrusT, Systematic, Agoria, ISSA, or ISACA. Cost for non-cancellation : 150 €.

Registration is now open for our next Biometrics event, in 2012. This event has not been finally scheduled, but you can already sign up your interest.

About the organizers :
This event is organized by LSEC, a not-for-profit association focused on Information Security in Belgium. LSEC has been organizing over the last couple of years over 100 highly professional information security oriented activities. LSEC is a founding member of the European Security Innovation Network, a project supported by the European Commission through the INTERREG IVb program that supports innovative developments in the North Western European region in Security. With its partners Systematic Paris region in France, SITC in the UK and TeleTrusT in Germany, LSEC welcomes the active participation of companies to participate in the discussion of potential threats, challenges and opportunities for companies in the domain of Security, or to the enterprise market and government institutions.