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The objective of this paper is to outline the potential threats to security and privacy that are associated with biometric-enabled applications, to summarize the resulting requirements to ensure secure and private handling of personal data, and to explain why standardization in this area is required. The currently ongoing standardization efforts in ISO/IEC in the area of biometric template protection...