The use of unique physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, voice patterns, or retinal scan, to authenticate a user; providing security for workstations or information stored in hard drive.

使用独特的物理特征，例如指纹、声音模式，或视网膜扫描来鉴别一个用户，为工作站或存储子硬盘的信息提供安全保证。

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And here's an important note about what convergence is not: Merging the information security group and the corporate or physical security group on your organizational chart.

这里值得一提的是，融合并不是指：把组织结构图上的信息安全部门与企业或者物理安全部门合而为一。

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The mistreatment included physical and psychological torture, intended to extract information or to punish those held by security forces, he said.

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