Blogs in organizations

The president of a multinational company, posts a blog about upcoming changes to the way manufacturing a certain appliance. He has is employees to comment of this decisions to find out the employees point ofview. Let's begin with the advantages. This is a fast way to get employees feedback, to find out what the employees think of the new changes. Seen as the company is a multinational, there can get feedback from accross the world at a amazing speed. Comments for ways to improve are also very constructive for the company and allows employees and mangament to interchange ideas. This is also a low cost base method, a lot quicker and cheaper than mail. However, misinformation is a huge problem with blogs, people can say things that aren't true, and once a post is posted, then employees, "may get the wrong end of the stick". Potentiel false rumors may inquire, that might hurt the image of the company. Also, information leakage is also possible, which may lead for competitors to gain an advantage. Blogs are great ways for people to interact and discuss new ideas, however you must always be aware of where the information comes from, as this might create false statements and untrue rumors.

Disadvantages of using fingerprint devcies

There aren't just advantages, there is also some problems with fingerprint devices. First of all, people with dirty hands of working in an industry with a lot of manuel labor, the scanners may be unable to read a employees fingerprints as any devitaion will cause the system to not find the match in the database. Therefore, companies in the manufacturing industry, such inquire steadely before acquiring such a product. Also, it is possible to falsefy the system, as you don't need a perfect match but rather a depinct of the fingerprint. There in great national defence agencies, this would be a huge security breach, as a mold or a cast can sometimes be used to err the system. Finnaly, what does the public think of this. As many, view this as fine, many critics think this is a envasion of personal privacy, and you no longer use a PIN, but rather a body part. This is still in debate in some areas. Fingerprint devices are good, however, as mentionned before decding to impant, to should revise the industry you in and find out if it it well suited for this line of work.

Sources:

http://isaca.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=34319&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm
http://www.itp.net/579712-biometric-device-can-sense-finger-veins

Advantages of fingerprint devices

They are many advantages for using fingerprints as the key to your organization. To begin, it allows for corporations to allow private information not to be given to anybody. For exemple, many laptops have a built in device, which allows secure and private information to be distributed to the right people, as only the employees in the system will have access to this information. Furthermore, national defence agencies use fingerprint devices, as they don't want anybody walking into their agencies. Big corporations also use it, like manufacturing and industrial companies. Also, fingerprints are unique, therefore allowing very little erroring to occur. In the US, many states now use fingerprints as a way to register people for social services benefits. The New York State, has 900 000 people enrolled in their system. It can be used in airports to detect flyers, therefore is a way to make sure that each flyer matches who they say the are. These are many of the advantages of using fingerprint devices.


Sources:

http://www.securitycamera.de/biometric-technology/fingerprint-scanning.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/systems/biometrics.htm

Modification of fingerprint devies

Fingerprint devices are fairly new and many big corporations use them for identification of their personal. However, like all new equipment, failures and leaks can arrive and if we are talking about a national defence using this, then this is pretty unacceptable. Molds and casts have been used to forge some fingerprint scanners, even if some people tried and failed (http://www.washjeff.edu/users/ahollandminkley/Biometric/index.html).
However, a new device is out that could replace the fingerpint device. It's a device that instead of reading your fingerprint it would be able to recognize the veins patterns beneef the skin. For the big national agencies, this device is a lot more secure and also is very helpful in the manufacturing industry. Unclean hands, dry hands can cause the scanner the be inable to read a person fingerpint, however with this new technology, this would allow the company to save time, as it would allow to read the finger veins of the employee, therefore saving time.

Sources:

http://www.washjeff.edu/users/ahollandminkley/Biometric/index.html
http://www.itp.net/579712-biometric-device-can-sense-finger-veins

Biometric fingerprint device

The fingerprint devices are widely used in organizations as it allows the company to identify a person by an human attribute, in this case their fingerprint. It holds a sensor to scan to person's fingerprint and a processor which has a database, which compares and matches the fingerprint in the database. Actually, it's mostly large corporations and gouvernments agencies that use this device, as the cost can still be very expensive. It is a way for corporations to protect themselves agaisnt security breaches and information leaks, as well as keeping track of employees timetables.

Sources:
http://www.tmcnet.com/biomag/features/shen0902.htm
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2004/fingerprint.asp