Passive Authentication Effect On Enterprise Security

Biometrics technology aims at utilizing major and distinctive characteristics such as behavioral or biological, for the sake of positively indentifying people. With the help of a combination of hardware and specific identifying sets of rules, a basic human attribute, automated biometric recognition mimics to distinguish and categorize other people as individual and unique. But the challenges surrounding biometrics are great as well.

Biometrics are important to not only information systems, but to information security as a subject. Today, most information is kept secure via ID cards or secret information, such as a PIN, password, pattern, etc., the downside to this type of security is the lack of a failsafe (Ashok, Shivashankar and Mudiraj)! What would happen if an ID card was lost? Or a PIN, password or pattern was leaked to individuals who were not on a “need to know” basis”? This is where the importance of biometrics comes into play.

Ultimately all experts agreed that biometrics are superior to older methods of online identification. But experts question if this new technology is enhancing the customers experience. Experts debate these new features because they are more reliable than passwords but when hacked can give out more personal information. The social network for those in the IT industry Spiceworks says that 90% of companies will use biometrics by 2020.Companies like Microsoft and Facebook are already using this technology because it is a cheaper alternative than passwords. Passwords can get hacked, but are also easy to change, biometrics can be hacked, but users cannot change biometrics. Not only do hackers access your fingerprints, but they also have all of your online secured personal information. This advancement has proved to be beneficial for companies, but consumers are wary to give up this information. This is due to the fact the companies are selling this information to third parties without consent from the users. The European Union is addressing citizens' concerns mandating that companies give consent to customers. Hopefully other nations like the U.S. will adopt these laws to protect citizens. The article draws that biometrics can help companies get to really know their customers but customers no longer trust them because they have gone too

We live in a world today, in which technology moves at a very rapid pace. Many of these technological advances can be used to make our everyday lives easier and safer. One of these new technologies is Biometrics. Biometrics is the process of measuring a person’s physical properties. This would include measuring things like fingerprints, retinas, odor, vein structure on the back of the hand and many other things. Biometrics is a very important topic because it would create better security precautions for certain places that need to be secure. Biometrics will make our society safer by only allowing authorized people out of secure facilities and by keeping the unauthorized people out. Throughout the rest of this

Ever heard the saying along the lines of “everyone is unique in their own way”? When it comes to biometric, that saying is very accurate due to the fact that uniqueness the basic premise of biometrics. Biometrics is one of the most effective technologies that is used to distinguish the variances of individuals (Cantore, 2011). Biometrics focuses on the minor and major differences of individuals by using many different methods as well as features. Throughout the years, biometrics has been used to authenticate individuals’ identities. In this paper I will be explaining what biometrics is as well as describing its effectiveness, accuracy, and legality. I will also examine court cases involving

It can cost a company up to $10,000 to apply biometrics to a single door. However, if security is a top concern for a company, this may be a worthy investment. A one-time fee of $10,000 security fee to implement this technology might be more worth it to a company than risking the theft or tampering of less secure critical assets or information. For example, biometric recognition has already been implemented at Virginia Tech’s data center. The employee has to enter a passcode and provide a fingerprint to access the door to the center. Behind the door over hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment and sensitive information is secured, therefore Virginia Tech made the decision to spend more money up front on security rather than risk the loss that would result in the event of a

Theorist working on a comparison of the biometric template that is created and temporarily stored template with a number of people. And then takes the decision-maker in mind the similarity measures produced by matcher.

The requirements for the adoption of the fingerprint biometrics technology will require software to be installed to interface with the electronic health records and financial system along with several biometric fingerprint scanners and readers. The IT Department will be required to test the biometric technology effectiveness. Once, approved by the IT department and Security Officer, there will be required staff training on the new technology. Then patients will be informed of the new technology and the Long-Care Faculty’s new procedures. As required, there will be an enrollment period where nurses will begin scanning each patient index fingerprint into the system; once the enrollment period is complete, the usage of the biometric technology can go live with each patient being able to scan their fingerprint to allow their providers access to their medical record data (Chandra, Durand & Weaver,2008)

Biometric methodologies emerged into existence in 1858 by use of recording hand images for identification purposes. From 1858 to 1896 studies progressed in the identification of individuals by hand geometry, a person’s measurements, and fingerprints. From the year 1936 to 1985 biometric studies proceeded for iris pattern, face recognition, acoustic speech, written signature, and hand identification. Patents for hand and iris identification became a reality 1985 to 1986 and in 1988 the first semi-automated facial recognition system was deployed. By 1991 face recognition is automated with the ability of detecting faces in real-time. By the mid to late 1990’s biometric methodologies evolves and is integrated into technology allowing the practice of fingerprint, palm systems, and iris identification to become more reliable with increased automation capabilities. Studies therefore increased and biometric technology became even more advanced in the early 2000’s up until today’s time.

These days, users have been faced with an ever-increasing number of passwords and the cognitive restrictions associated with them. Furthermore, authenticating with typical passwords means checking the user’s identity once and never questioning who utilizes a system after that process has finished. Nevertheless, new strides have been made in passive authentication, which would allow users to authenticate with a system continuously throughout their session by implementing methods such as keystroke dynamics, pulse-response biometrics, and monitoring user behavior. Not only do these methods propose to constantly, or periodically to verify a user’s identity, they are not

One of the most important ways that biometric technology is impacting security lies within the confines of computer information systems. The government, the military, and large corporations need to have complete assurance that the data and information stored on their networks and databases are only available to users who have been authorized to view such material.

Centralized fingerprinting mechanism has an encumbrance of computational overheads and high communication bandwidth costs. Central repository of authenticating data has also raised concerns over the loss of privacy and potential misuse of biometric data. For instance, biometric data stored at a central repository can be used to track individuals by checking where they visit or shop. This centralization, when compromised, may lead to data being used for unintended purposes like searching private information using latent fingerprints, revelation of certain health problems that may lead to discrimination among peers, etc.

Public acceptance of biometric systems has a critical impact on their success due to their potential misuse of biometric data. Unlike passwords and tokens, compromised biometric templates cannot be revoked and reissued. Therefore it is illegally acquired by an attacker, not only the security of the system is at risk but the privacy and the security of the user may be compromised forever too. So granting template security is one of the most important issues in practical. The need of protecting user sensitive information locally and performing secure user authentication remotely become more increasing.

Biometric technologies are getting better and finely tuned. The rate of false readings and errors has sharply fallen. However it still requires careful consideration and planning to implement a biometric identification system. They are most costly and complicated to implement as compared with other authentication systems. A proper evaluation of the system is important before purchasing any biometric system. A thorough risk analysis is necessary. In many cases biometrics may be overkill. Biometrics must be used if there is high level of risk involved. Customer acceptance is also important when logging on to company websites. Home users might not be ready to install biometrics on home computers for online banking.

All access to government servers, network devices and maintenance areas of the government agency's data center will be role-based and defined through authentication at a minimum (Amsel, 1988). Access methods will require two-party authentication and for access to server operating systems and rack-mounted servers, biometrics will also be required. One of the most critical success factors to ensuring a high level of security and stability and to guard again social engineering threats is to create and maintain authentication methods that thwart illusionary and coercive-driven access attempts (Burgess, Canright, Engø-Monsen, 2004). By having several roles requires to gain access to data,