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Through the history of aviation the importance of airport security has steadily increased. Since the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, many changes have taken place at airports to prevent such an attack from occurring again. The purpose of this paper is to: outline airport security procedures, discuss the different technologies involved with airport security, as well as examine the components of airport security. In addition I will also discuss the Transportation Security Administration’s role in our nation’s airport security.

Jeremy Wickins writes, “The Ethics of Biometrics: The Risk of Social Exclusion from the Widespread Use of Electronic Identification.” In the article “The Ethics of Biometrics: The Risk of Social Exclusion from the Widespread Use of Electronic Identification,” Wickins writes the possible segregation of people when biometrically scanned due to the biometrics systematic flaws. Jeremy Wickins attempts to prove that biometric identification system is flawed because of not being able to encompass the whole populace for some being disabled, religious preferences, not following protocols, not willing to corporate, and the homeless. Thus, Wickins claims the biometric data entered into the system is incorrect, creating false reporting which in turn denies

With the technological advances that America possesses, an extremely safe nation is feasible. Biometric devices are one example of how our defense could be strengthened massively. For example, before anyone arrives on any form of transportation in the United States, they should be made to check in with a biometric device in order to confirm that they are legitimate citizens. A biometric device recognizes features that are impossible to disguise such as fingerprints or the retina located in a person’s eye. The use of biometric devices would easily identify a person and allow the security at airports to absolutely determine who is boarding the aircraft. This would also eliminate all non-legitimate foreigners boarding vessels and aircraft without question (Sims 32-37).

Biometrics is a very beneficial and quickly growing form of technology, but with that growth comes key considerations. These considerations must take into an account the security of the system itself in respect to the privacy of the user. There are several key elements and concerns that are included in this and must be highlighted during the development of the system as well as the implementation.

Biometrics also saves nurses a lot of time. Nurses going up to a computer and logging on, searching for a patient and scrolling through many people if they have the same name would take a very long time. When biometrics are used, a nurse can find a patient quick and see what is in their data like what medication they are on. Biometrics are used outside of healthcare environments as well. Law enforcement also uses this for their criminal database. When a criminal is taken into custody, their fingerprint is taken so they would be able to access it later for other purposes or if the criminal is taken back into custody

Through the history of aviation the importance of airport security has steadily increased. Since the disastrous terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, many changes have taken place at airports to prevent such an attack from occurring again. The purpose of this paper is to: outline airport security procedures, discuss the different technologies involved with airport security, as well as examine the components of airport security. In addition I will also discuss the Transportation Security Administration's role in our nation's airport security.

Biometrics according to Maggio (2008) are said to be "automated methods of identifying or authenticating the identity of a living person based on a physical or behavioral characteristic" (p.310). As the author further points out, whereas traditional identification methods included but they were not limited to the utilization of a work ID card or a driver's license, biometric identification largely makes use of voice, hand, facial, or even iris features for recognition purposes. In comparison to the traditional methods of identification, biometric identification methods are more secure because they happen to be much more difficult to circumvent.

In the recent past technology has developed to such an extent where we use biometric characteristics to identify a person. That could be an advantage and a disadvantage as well. Biometric authentication is a technology in which the biometric features such as face, fingerprint, hand geometry, iris, retinal, signature, and voice.

However, identification systems are more often deployed in large-scale environments, anywhere from tens of thousands to tens of millions of users. In these applications, biometric identification is not replacing passwords or PINs – it is pro- viding new types of fraud-reducing functionality.

Abstract—We would like to outline our opinions about the usability of biometric security systems. We outline the position of biometrics in the current field of security in the first section of our paper. The second chapter introduces a more systematic view of the process of biometric authentication – a layer model (of the biometric authentication process). The third section discusses the advantages and disadvantages of biometric authentication systems. We also propose a classification of

Biometrics can be described as an identity verification or automatic identification of a person or a criminal by use of either enduring physical or behavioral characteristics. Biometric identification makes use of personal characteristics, body parts and imaging methods including hands, eye, fingers, feet, ears, veins, and teeth, typing style, signatures, odors, gaits, and voices Biometric identification systems are categorized into main physical characteristic that lend itself to biometric identification.

Airport security is currently seen as one of the biggest inconveniences attributed to travel. However a brief look back in history to some of the conditions frequent flyers were subjected to makes modern air travel look like a breeze.

Biometric-based authentication applications include workstation, network, and domain access, single sign-on, application logon, data protection, remote access to resources, transaction security and Web security. Biometrics can be used for positive identification; given the input biometric sample it measures the authenticity of an individual when using an ATM, credit card, computer network login, cell phones, medical records management, or electronic data security. Positive identification functions place high value on being user friendly and are cost sensitive. Large scale identification determines whether a person is in the database for an application given the input biometric sample, it requires little human interaction and must be continuously monitored (Goldstein). Examples could include, welfare distribution, border control, national ID cards, voter ID cards, driver’s license,

Terrorism has become one of the biggest threats to the security of any entity, especially after the incident of 9/11. Terrorism is that kind of violent activity which has a strong impact on a wide range of audience. By doing this activity randomly, terrorist frighten the audience and increase its angst. Terrorist depend upon various methods like assassination, threats, armed attacks, hostage taking etc. domestic terrorism starts and ends in one country but transnational terrorism involves many countries. That’s why 9/11 incident has transnational nature as in it was planned in some country, implemented in USA and victims were from 80 different countries (Enders, 2004). Airports are one of the most probable victims of terrorism. In such attack, passengers become totally helpless and due to the severity and unique condition of airplane attack, it spread horror on the large extent (Kaplan, 2006). Many developed countries started to plan and implement a better security operation administration for their airports after that incident. USA established a new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in order to make a better and secure airport environment. (Simon, 2007). Similarly UK also passed Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, whose purpose was to improve security management at

This report is about security at airports. It contains a useful information regarding airport security regulations such as both hand and hold luggage restrictions and list of items that are allowed to be taken on a board. This report also presents a brief changes that had happened in airports security before terrorists attack on 9th of September 2001. Additionally there is described the recent project- Total Airport Security System (TASS), which aims to improve the security at the airport area using very advanced technology structures.