Las Vegas: Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday announced a new palm-scanning identification service that will allow companies to authenticate people when they enter physical premises.
The service, named ‘Amazon One Enterprise’, eliminates the operational overhead associated with managing traditional enterprise authentication methods, such as badges and PINs, the company said during its ‘AWS Re:Invent 2023’ event here.
Palm-recognition technology uses advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a palm signature that is linked to identity credentials such as badges, employee IDs or PINs.
A palm signature is a unique numerical vector created from the image of the user’s palm that cannot be replicated or used for impersonation.
“Amazon One Enterprise’s Palm Recognition technology is designed to provide a highly accurate identity service that enhances an organization’s overall security while offering seamless authentication management with low operational overhead,” said Dilip Kumar, vice president of AWS Applications. “
Amazon One Enterprise provides highly accurate and secure enterprise access control through easy-to-use biometric identification tools.
The company said security is built into every step of the service, from multi-layered security controls within Amazon One devices to protecting data in transit and in the cloud.
“Amazon One combines palm and vein imagery for enterprise biometric matching and delivers an accuracy rate of 99.9999 percent, which exceeds the accuracy of other biometric options – even more accurate than scanning two irises,” AWS said.
A palm signature is a unique numerical vector created from the image of the user’s palm that cannot be replicated or used for impersonation.
To implement Amazon One Enterprise, IT and security administrators can easily install Amazon One devices on site and activate them in the AWS Management Console.
“Administrators can also manage all aspects of user authentication in the console, including monitoring the status of installed devices, managing software updates, and receiving analytics on user enrollment and usage, while eliminating the time and cost involved in manual verification of credentials. Involves reducing the amount of overhead. ,” the company said.
Amazon One Enterprise is available in preview in the US.
“We are excited to work with Amazon One Enterprise for a more secure, efficient way to manage authentication and access to our systems,” said Nick Kriebel, global head of Identity and Access Management, IHG Hotels & Resorts.
