Most companies today have adopted a hybrid work environment. Employees visit the office for work as required. But many of them work from home most of the time. This scenario has increased the need for security. With work being done from remote locations, security of data has become a critical issues.
Employees would need to access company data, including client data. This makes it important to secure the data to prevent misuse or unauthorized access. Some companies introduced different logins for remote work. This can be counterproductive as it can make employees frustrated and affect productivity. The solution then is to use biometrics to create a common digital ID.
Using a biometric digital ID
A common digital ID will ensure that employees don’t need multiple IDs. It makes work easier for the employee and is also easy to manage for the administrators. To ensure security, the digital ID can be created using biometrics. Fingerprint, iris, or face recognition can be used for authentication. The authentication could be done using the employee’s mobile phone making access convenient.
Whenever an employee needs to access their official email or files containing client data, they can use the digital ID through biometric authentication. This can be used whether they work at office or from a remote location. A key benefit of this system is that it can help close the identity gap that calls for multiple methods of identifying a person.
How it would work?
When you introduce the system of a biometric digital ID, you are ensuring work can be delightful. Employees can now focus on the work without having to worry about remembering multiple passwords or wondering how to access assets. With a single digital ID, they can work comfortably from wherever they want.
For the IT administrators, it is a convenient system that takes away their workload. Employees can carry out authentication using their own mobile phones. Biometric authentication is easy to implement and is highly secure. There is hardly any risk of unauthorized access. In the conventional system, there would be many request to reset passwords. All this is now in the past.
Another benefit for employees is that they don’t need to share any of their private information to access company assets. There is no password, date of birth, or secret question to answer. All they need to do is get their biometrics scanned. This would confirm their identity, and they can access the data they need. This is another way in which work can be made delightful thanks to biometrics.
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