Journey of Biometric Authentication

Supports a real digital identity

Kayathiri Mahendrakumaran
Identity Beyond Borders
5 min readJun 7, 2022

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Photo by Aaron Burden in Unsplash

Traditional Authentication

Over 90% of businesses today rely on Knowledge Based Authentication — usernames, passwords, silly “security” questions, which are distressingly easy to steal. Some add in irritating and time consuming liveness detection like the “I’m not a robot” images where you pick all the…

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Kayathiri Mahendrakumaran
Identity Beyond Borders

Senior Software Engineer 👨‍💻, WSO2 | Undergraduate👩‍🎓 , Computer Science & Engineering | Writer ✍️