Erica Rietveld

Manager Digital Technology & Biometrics, Netherlands Forensic Institute

http://www.forensicinstitute.nl/

Biography

Ir Erica Rietveld (53) heads the department of Digital Technology & Biometrics at NFI since 2010. Fields of investigation include digital forensics, intelligent data analysis, fingerprints, documents & printers, handwriting, speech & audio, image analysis, face recognition. NFI works mainly for Dutch Law Enforcement, but increasingly provides services and products to law enforcement internationally.

Erica has a broad background in business and IT strategy, governance and architecture, innovation processes and marketing.  She holds a MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management Science, University of Technology Eindhoven.
Previous positions include: founding partner Grexx, assistant professor IT Governance at University of Technology Eindhoven, principal consultant e-business at Atos Origin, vice-director at Ogilvy & Mather, manager sales & customer service at Achmea Zilveren Kruis.

Presentation: Biometrics: persons, not identities

Automated biometric identification is increasingly used to secure access to both physical and virtual spaces.  We want to make sure that we have the right person, while traditional security methods rely on the concept of identities.
In this presentation Erica Rietveld provides a forensic perspective on biometric issues.
What is biometrics? What can we measure, and what do these measurements mean? How unique is a characteristic? What statistics do we need to interpret correctly?
In many cases we do not measure people, but prints or images. How do we deal with distortions? And how do we make reliable comparisons in uncontrolled environments?
The presentation will present highlights of current practices, successes and failures.