Biometric Authentication: Technologies, Applications, and Recommendations

This report discusses the concept of biometric authentication, its relevant technologies and applications, cryptographic concepts, user authentication process, and the importance of securing computing environment. It also provides recommendations for enhancing user authentication and network security.

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Biometric Authentication
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Contents
Abstract.......................................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................4
Report background..................................................................................................................................4
The aim of the report..............................................................................................................................4
Relevant technologies and their application...............................................................................................5
Cryptographic concept............................................................................................................................6
User authentication process....................................................................................................................7
Importance of securing computing environment....................................................................................8
Recommendations.......................................................................................................................................9
References.................................................................................................................................................11
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Abstract
Authentication and identification are the second methods that an individual’s individuality tends
determination using biometric technology concept. According to (Hanna 2015, p54) verification
checks that an individual is indeed who they assert to be and accomplishes a one-to-one
assessment of the individual’s thumbprint sample with a stowed reference pattern. Identification,
on the other hand, executes a one-to-many evaluation in confirming an individual’s personality.
The identification procedure associates the individual’s fingerprint taster against all the allusion
templates kept in a single file. An individual is confidently identified if the person’s fingerprint
appearance equals any of the stored patterns. An association can enjoy unbounded benefits by
adequately deploying biometric technology in their daily functioning. The present economy is a
developing entity, and technological progressions have changed the technique in which
organizations operate and conduct their dealings. Current organizations need to be adaptive,
supple and agile to endure in the economical business situation. For instance, fingerprint
expertise tends to benefit organizations in a diversity of sectors such as government, retail
originalities, health care, technology establishments, manufacturing production, libraries, and
colleges among others (Hejazi et al. 2016). Organizations are advised in the employment of
biometric technologies in their productions as they cater to more secure document storage and
curb unauthorized access in their databases.
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INTRODUCTION
Report background
The report below mainly addresses the issue of biometric authentication in the current
technology in the environment. Techniques of securing information and data in the present days
have evolved to a more secure means of biometric authentication where access to a particular
network in the system only enhanced after the authentication process. The report further
discusses the limitations and procedural application of various types of biometric authentication.
Biometric technologies are the unique, measurable physiognomies used in labeling and
describing individuals (Bemmel & Mian 2014, p90). These identifiers (biometric) often tends
categorized as physical versus behavioral features. Physiological appearances are related to the
body shape, for instance, face recognition, fingerprint, veins of the palm, hand geometry, iris
recognition, among others. On the other hand, behavioral appearances are related to the design of
behavior of an individual, including but not restricted to gait, typing rhythm, and voice.
Meanwhile, biometric identifiers are unique to persons; they are more dependable in verifying
identity than token and knowledge-based approaches; though, the gathering of biometric
identifiers increases privacy concerns about the eventual use of this data. The report discusses
the application areas of biometric technologies and their concerned issues.
The aim of the report
The reports aim at enhancing scholars and organizational workforces in knowledge-based
equipping with biometric technology in the present era. The report displays the concept of
biometrics as a very robust authentication mechanism that based on something that an individual
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as opposed to something he/she know or something in possession. Passwords and indications are
highly susceptible to manipulation or stolen as a weak or conceded password is the main reason
for the increasing cases of safety and data cracks. Passwords are the feeblest link in an
establishment’s security scheme, and even robust passwords cannot resist cultured attackers from
a hacker (Haghighat, Zonouz & Abdel-Mottaleb 2015, p76). Further, the report aims at
demonstrating the costs of maintaining biometric technology and how to enhance the concept of
ensuring effective administration properly.
Relevant technologies and their application
Biometric systems are applied increasingly in recognizing individuals and normalize access to
corporeal spaces, data, services, and to other privileges or benefits, counting the ability to cross
global borders. The incentives for using biometrics are sundry and often intersect with each
other. They comprise improving the suitability and efficiency of tedious access transactions,
decreasing fraud, and increasing public safety and national safety. Questions persevere, however,
about the efficiency of biometric systems as safety or surveillance apparatuses, their application
and manageability, appositeness in widely changing contexts, social influences, effects on
secrecy, and legal and strategic implications. Biometric authentication as s human recognition
structures are characteristically probabilistic, and hence intrinsically weak (Kim et al. 2015). The
chance of mistakes in the system can be made trivial but not entirely eradicated. System
inventors and operators should antedate and plan for the happening of errors, even if faults are
expected to be intermittent. Biometric systems integrate complicated definitional, scientific, and
operational picks that are themselves entrenched in larger technological and communal contexts.
Thus, systems-level deliberations are precarious to the accomplishment of biometric structures.
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Analyses of biometric schemes’ performance, efficiency, trustworthiness, and appropriateness
should take a broad schemes standpoint.
Biometric authentications systems are integrally probabilistic, and their presentation needs to be
evaluated within the situation of its ultimate and critical distinctive. Biometric recognition
encompasses matching, within lenience of approximation, of pragmatic biometric qualities
against formerly collected figures for a subject. Estimated matching is obligatory due to the
disparities in biological aspects and behaviors both within and among individuals. Consequently,
in distinction to the mostly twofold results associated with most information expertise systems,
biometric structures provide probabilistic outcomes (Hejazi et al. 2016).
Cryptographic concept
Present cryptography is comprehensively grounded in mathematical philosophy and computer
science run through; cryptographic algorithms are premeditated around computational solidity
assumptions, creating such algorithms stable to break in practice by any rival. It is theoretically
probable to cut such a classification, but it is almost impossible to do so by any recognized
practical tactics. According to (Kindt 2016, p56) these systems are therefore labeled
computationally protected; theoretical progress, like enhancements in integer factorization
procedures, and faster computing technology necessitate these resolutions to be continually
adjusted. There occur information-theoretically safe schemes that possibly cannot be smashed
even with infinite computing power, for instance, one-time pad, but these patterns are more
challenging to apply than the best theoretically delicate but computationally safe mechanisms.
The progress of cryptographic technology has elevated some legal issues in the information
phase. Cryptography's perspective in the application as a tool for intelligence and subversion has
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led several governments to categorize it as a weapon and to bound or even forbid its export and
demand. In some authorities where the use of cryptography concept is legal, laws allow
investigators to oblige the disclosure of encryption keys for info/data relevant to an investigation.
Cryptography also theatres a significant character in digital rights administration and copyright
violation of digital broadcasting (Ngo et al. 2015).
User authentication process
To fully understand user substantiation is crucial since it is the procedure that keeps unauthorized
users from attaining access to delicate information. Authentication safeguards that a particular
user only has admittance to the information they need and cannot see the complex information of
another user in the system. According to (Sinno 2018, p9) when a particular user verification is
not secure, criminals (cyber) can trick the coordination and gain entree, taking of any kind data
they are in need of it. Authentication of users guarantees that only authorized operators are
gaining admission to sensitive data, and without a secure authentication progression, the
organization could be in jeopardy of being intruded.
The common of expressed anxieties relate to privacy matters of the individual user. Precisely,
users are apprehensive with how and where data is stored, who can admittance it, how it is
utilized, and the dependability of its usage. This disquiet undoubtedly useful for persons who
sight biometrics technology in its broad peak sense, but are not as effective when smeared to user
authentication. The variance is in how this knowledge is applied. For the persistence of
authenticating a distinct user, the coordination does not attempt to regulate the user's
individuality only but also to approve it. It will only permit access by an operator to a particular
submission or network when a match is established. The technique of storage is also dissimilar
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from a definite fingerprint or picture that might be on the database (Unar, Seng & Abbasi 2014,
p2659). For user authentication resolutions, information is stored as an arithmetical
representation that cannot, in and of itself, re-form the original appearance. Storage of exclusive
identifiers is also a disquiet to some entities. Data can be stored locally that provides for cooler
access and resistor and lessens the concern about attacks in the network.
Importance of securing computing environment
With cyber-attacks as beautiful as cyber-crime beside large companies, in the year 2014 where
globally they rose to forty percent, network safety needs to be observed at afresh and in a new
aspect (Siegal, Rowell & Hintz 2018, p11). Adding to this delinquent is the massive multiplying
of mobile and smartphones across the globe. With most phones capable of retrieving the internet
from anyplace around the world, the problematic of IT safety is getting more and more severe
with each transient day.
Many breaches exist in our empathetic of the nature and range of distinctiveness and steadiness
of biometric traits crosswise individuals and clusters. No biometric feature is known to be
entirely steady and typical across all groups (Liu & Silverman 2001, p34). Biometric
personalities have fundamental arithmetical properties, uniqueness, and differing notches of
stability under normal physiological environments and environmental encounters, many features
that are not adequately understood, specifically at large gauges. Complicating substances, the
causal biological possessions and circulation of biometric qualities in a population are commonly
observed only through sieves interposed by depth processes and instruments and succeeding
biometric feature abstraction. Thus, the expansion of science of individual human individuality is
essential to operative and appropriate application of biometric authentication. Better biometric
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traits appreciative in human beings could be expanded by carefully premeditated data collection
and breakdown. The biological keystones of physical individuality and the steadiness of several
biometric characteristics under regular physiological situations and environmental defies require
further explanation from basic natural and empirical training. Prominently, the underlying
particularity of a biometric trait cannot be evaluated apart from an empathetic of the stability,
accurateness, and inherent unpredictability of a given quantity (Semwal et al. 2015).
Recommendations
In matters concerning information technology, attackers are going to install more and more
approaches that will endure to fox cybersecurity specialists by trying and continuing being ahead
of them in the rate contest of security placement versus safety breach. As computer specialists,
individuals and organizations need to be alert of the deeds in the network security situation and
implement procedures to minimize these threats (Fung et al. 2016). Biometrics is considered as a
most important aspect in securing data and information in almost every network. Biometric
technology is hard to duplicate the information stored at the time of registration hence making it
appropriate in securing the information from authorized access. With biometric technology
providing a resilient user authentication elucidation, there are other aspects tend consideration in
the authentication procedure. When a high level of safety is needed, it is endorsed to combine
other authentication features with biometrics. When combined what an individual knows, what
h/she has, and what they are, they tend to achieve full security level across multiple submissions
and structures (Bringer et al. 2014).
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