Biometrics for authentication: security and privacy implications

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Biometrics for
authentication:
security and privacy
implications

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Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................... 2
Overview of the technology...................................................................................2
Relevant technologies and their applications........................................................3
Fingerprint recognition technology.....................................................................3
Applications........................................................................................................ 3
Voice recognition technology............................................................................. 3
Applications........................................................................................................ 4
Face recognition................................................................................................. 4
Applications........................................................................................................ 4
Iris recognition technology.................................................................................4
Applications........................................................................................................ 4
The challenges or problems occurred in biometric authentications......................4
Biometrics authentications are not private.........................................................5
The problem of uniqueness................................................................................ 5
Scanning problems............................................................................................. 5
Security issue..................................................................................................... 5
Identification of gaps in the literature...................................................................6
Future research direction...................................................................................... 6
Conclusion............................................................................................................. 6
References............................................................................................................. 8

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Introduction
The term biometric authentication is defined as the advanced
technology which is used for verifying the identity of consumers. Mainly,
such kind of technology is used in the business industries for
authentication purpose where it allows companies to detect the identity
of the users (Awasthi, & Srivastava, 2013). The key aim of this research
study is to describe the idea of biometric authentication and analyse the
security threats linked with the biometric authentication technology. It is
identified that the security and privacy both are very common problems
that impact on the private details of users. The main focus of this report
is to evaluate the security threats occurred in the field of biometric
authentication. There are several sections will be included in this
research study such as an overview of the technology, relevant
technologies and their applications, challenges linked with biometric
authentication and gaps in the literature.
Overview of the technology
Biometric authentication refers to the security process which relies
on the unique biological characteristics of a person in order to verify
their identity in an organization or community. Such kind of information
technology compares the obtained data with the store data and
confirmed authentic data in the database. Generally, biometric
authentication is utilized to control and manage the access to physical
and digital sources for example rooms, computer devices, and buildings.
A recent study identified that the use of biometric technologies are
growing rapidly and many companies are using this approach for
improving the authentic process of business and manage the
confidentiality of data (Banerjee, & Woodard, 2012). It is observed that
biometric authentication is a use identifies approach which contained
biological inputs in order to analyse some part of the body.