A new research report from Mercator Advisory Group titled
Biometrics: A Market Forecast for Consumer Adoption provides predictions out to 2025 for the penetration of the U.S. market by mobile devices that implement the hardware required to support biometrics, the market availability of persistent biometrics and the percentage of the U.S. population that will utilize biometrics for authentication.
Passwords are now totally unreliable. They were vulnerable before Yahoo lost 1 billion passwords to criminals but can’t be trusted today unless additional identification methods are incorporated. As identified in the companion report
Biometrics: A New Wrinkle Changes the Authentication Landscape, biometrics will clearly be the technology to displace passwords over time and will do so at a unexpectedly fast rate as behavioral biometrics convert the market into a software and cloud based driven solution.
“This forecast evaluates four key issues that will most impact the adoption of biometrics, including consumer attitudes, availability, practicality and application support,” said
Tim Sloane, Vice President, Payments Innovation, at Mercator Advisory Group and author of report. “The availability of several years of Mercator CustomerMonitor Survey Series (CMSS) research on consumer adoption of mobile banking provided us an excellent model for predicting how quickly the consumer’s distrust of biometrics will be converted into usage based on convenience and promotion by trusted friends and businesses.”
The new report forecasting consumer adoption of biometrics will help authenticators plan their next technology implementation and help them evaluate the credibility of ROI estimates associated with the deployment of biometric hardware and centralized storage of biometric information. This report is critical for any executives preparing to make any such investments.
The forecast will also be important to suppliers in the authentication market, as it indicates that a dramatic market shift is underway.
This research report is 16 pages long and has 4 exhibits.Companies mentioned in this report include: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, FIDO Alliance, Google, Yahoo.