Federal researchers have reconfirmed the reliability of the iris as an authentication factor. But we’re at least three years away from using iris scanning as an advanced method of user authentication for IT systems. IT security groups focus on something the user knows (password) and something user has (token) and not on who the user is (biometric) IT security culture needs to change, says Mohammad Murad, a vice president at iris-recognition systems maker Iris ID, a spinoff of LG Electronics. Murad: “They’re still focused on passwords, PINs and the RSA tokens type of things””]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/readying-iris-recognition-for-prime-time-p-1545