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Title: Critical Role of Biometric Technologies in Homeland Security

By: Sreela Sasi, Ph.D.

Date: August 31, 2003

Location: Hilton-Cleveland South, 6200 Quarry Lane, Independence, OH.

Abstract:
The National Strategy for homeland security aligns and focuses homeland security functions into six critical mission areas: intelligence and warning, border and transportation security, domestic counterterrorism, protecting critical infrastructure, defending against catastrophic terrorism, and emergency preparedness and response. Biometric technologies can play a critical role in meeting all these objectives since it is a common and reliable way to authenticate the identity of a living person based on physiological or behavioral characteristics. Facial thermograms, voice, iris and retinal scan, signature, DNA fingerprinting, fingerprint, gait, dental structure, and hand geometry are some of the biometric characteristics that aid personal identification.