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Secure Account Recovery with Biometrics

The Biometrics Institute has released a new good practice paper, ‘Biometrics and Account Recovery’, focusing on one of the weakest links in digital identity: how users regain access when authentication fails or accounts are compromised.

Account takeover remains a persistent type of fraud with attackers frequently exploiting recovery streams where security checks are often weaker than those used at onboarding. Traditional recovery approaches – typically based on passwords, knowledge-based questions or basic two-factor authentication – may not reliably confirm that the genuine account holder is present, nor create a strong, enduring link between user and account.