Biometrics Authentication: Technologies, Challenges, and Future

This report provides a comprehensive overview of biometrics for authentication, delving into its significance in securing systems and processes. It explores various technologies employed in biometric authentication, including iris recognition, facial image analysis, and on-card comparisons, while also examining their applications. The report highlights the challenges associated with biometric authentication, such as security vulnerabilities, data breaches, and cost considerations. Furthermore, it identifies a research gap and proposes future research directions to address the identified issues, ultimately aiming to enhance the security and privacy of biometric authentication systems. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous improvement in biometric authentication to mitigate risks and ensure the secure access of resources.

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Table of Contents
Overview of the Biometrics for authentication...........................................................................................2
Relevant technologies and applications of those technologies...................................................................2
The challenges authentication.....................................................................................................................3
Research gap...............................................................................................................................................4
Summarize the future research directions based on the identified gaps....................................................5
References...................................................................................................................................................6

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Overview of the Biometrics for authentication
Authentication is necessary for many processes of an organization. It secures all the things from
various types of attacks and other factors. In addition, there are many issues, which are related to the
security of human access in the system. In addition, many things are required to secure the connection
between various things (Bobde & Satange, 2013).
This report will provide an overview of the biometric authentication process and its implications.
It will describe about the role of biometrics for authentication. In this report, the implications in security
and privacy will discuss using different research papers.
Relevant technologies and applications of those technologies
There are many technologies, which provide support in the authentication. In the case of
biometrics, there are various devices to improve security with their technologies. Internet-of-Things can
provide help into authentication. There are many issues in the integration of different things for the
security of the system (Gladis, 2018).
In addition, there are many technical issues in the systems that create challenges in front of an
organization. In addition, security and privacy are necessary to secure all the assets of an organization
from different types of cyber-attacks. Moreover, cloud computing helps to secure all the devices and
systems from threats of an organization. Besides, there are some critical issues, which can be solved
using biometrics for authentication (Gladis, 2018). There are various technologies and applications to
provide biometric application support for security and privacy.
There are some applications of biometrics, which areas:
1. Iris image records: it provides a high level of authentication and it has proper credentials for
accessing the systems in a proper manner.
2. On-card comparison: it can enhance the privacy in the systems, as the PIN number can be added
with the card and merged with biometric templates.
3. Facial image: facial image can provide more privacy and security to an organization. However, it
will take a high cost for authentication and security systems.

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4. Chain-of-trust records: it will provide a fast response to the displacement of the card or another
access identity to re-enrolment of all the things in the system.
The challenges authentication
There are various challenges has faced by many organizations in the implementation of
biometrics for authentication. However, the usages of biometrics are increasing every year, as shown in
the below diagram (Mahto & Yadav, 2017). There are main three challenges are faced by the
organization, which areas:
1. Security issues: passwords can store in the mind, which is more secure. However, biometric data
cannot secure form, other persons. Therefore, security and privacy can be broken using phishing,
social engineering, and many others.
2. Biometrics is hacked able: attackers can hack the server and databases of the company and theft
the data from their databases. It is an easy process for an attacker. Therefore, high level of security
will require for securing the biometrics data.
3. More chances of data breaches: there is some personal information in the databases of biometrics,
such as fingerprints, facial images, iris scan, and many others. Therefore, it is necessary to secure all
the data from the various cyber-attacks, and data breaches.
There are many other reasons to not accept biometrics for authentication. Cost is another issue
in the biometrics. It is a time taking process, as password is easily shared with others. In addition, there
are some important things, which are voice signal, facial image, and many others (Ogbanufe & Kim,
2018). There is a huge increment in the sales of digital voice assistant devices, which has worked on

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natural language processing. In addition, there are many changes behind biometrics, which make huge
impacts on the security and privacy of the system.
Research gap
Authentication is helpful for securing various types of things, such as access, money, documents,
and many others (Rouse, 2014). In addition, biometrics for authentication is highly popular because of
its easy access. Smartphones have used biometrics for authentications of phones and other applications.
Most of the processes have based on authentication in some industries, such as banking, retails, and
many others (Roberts, 2007).
Biometrics have used in many processes. There are many ways to improve the security of the
firm using proper manner. In addition, there are many advantages of the biometrics for authentication
(Korolov, 2012). In can use different things for authentication, which is based on the firm that which
type of security and privacy they need for their systems, such as voice, fingerprints, facial, iris, and many
others (Mahto & Yadav, 2017).

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There are some changes amended in the biometrics for authentication using cryptography
algorithms, which secure the pattern of the particular id. There are some changes in biometrics-based
on the issues has faced by the organization (Gapiński, 2014).
Hacker always tries to hack the main database that has data about the biometrics of various
persons. It makes a huge impact on the people that they lost their identity in a data breach (Wang,
2018). Thus, the government makes laws about privacy and security for authentication. Nowadays,
banking sector has adopted biometrics for authentication (Gladis, 2018).
Summarize the future research directions based on the identified gaps
It has concluded from the above parts of this report that biometrics has faced many challenges
in their security and privacy of data, which makes system week. This report has discussed the
biometrics for authentication and its security and privacy issues as well as their implications.
This report has explained the various things of authentication and its role in the security of
particular sector. Authentication is easy with biometrics but it requires high level of security of data. In
this report, research gap has founded based on the various research articles.
Finally, biometrics for authentication is the right way to enhance the security level in easier way.
There are some good features of biometrics, which makes it different from others. It will provide many
benefits in the future.

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References
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Gapiński, A. (2014). Strategies for Computer Networks Security. Kwartalnik Nauk o Przedsiębiorstwie, 3,
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Gladis, R. (2018, December 20). How biometrics will shape the future of mobile authentication. Retrieved
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shape-the-future-of-mobile-authentication/
Mahto, D., & Yadav, D. K. (2017). Security improvement of one-time password using crypto-biometric
model. In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and
Informatics (pp. 347-353). New Delhi: Springer.
Ogbanufe, O., & Kim, D. (2018). Comparing fingerprint-based biometrics authentication versus
traditional authentication methods for e-payment. Decision Support Systems, 1-14.
Roberts, C. (2007). Biometric attack vectors and defences. Computers & Security, 26(1), 14-25.