Windows Hello also comes with "enterprise-grade" security, meaning Microsoft wants it to work across businesses in all industries.įor that, Microsoft is turning to chipmaker Intel and its new RealSense 3D camera. "We understand how critical it is to protect your biometric data from theft, and for this reason your 'biometric signature' is secured locally on the device and shared with no one but you," he wrote. Though a fingerprint will always be more secure than "Password1234," people sometimes worry whether hackers can find a way to access their biometrics. Just last August, Russian hackers breached hundreds of thousands of websites to nab 1.2 billion usernames and passwords.īiometric authentication, which confirms who people are by using their unique physical characteristics, promises to put up an additional wall of security between devices and malicious third parties.
And the problem keeps growing as criminals collect large swaths of personal data from across the Internet. It doesn't help that many people reuse passwords across multiple websites, since hackers who have scooped up passwords from vulnerable sites now have the keys to more-secure sites.
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