Download or read book Secure Continuous Biometric enhanced Authentication written by Andrew J. Klosterman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "Biometrics have the potential to solidify person-authentication by examining unforgeable features of individuals. This paper explores issues involved with effective integration of biometric-enhanced authentication into computer systems and design options for addressing them. Because biometrics are not secrets, systems must not use them like passwords; otherwise, biometric-based authentication will reduce security rather than increase it. A novel biometric-enhanced authentication system, based on a trusted camera that continuously uses face recognition to verify identity, is described and evaluated in the context of Linux. With cryptographically-signed messages and continuous authentication, the difficulty of bypassing desktop authentication can be significantly increased."

Download or read book Secure Continuous Biometric Enhanced Authentication written by Andrew J. Klosterman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "Biometrics have the potential to solidify person-authentication by examining unforgeable features of individuals. This paper explores issues involved with effective integration of biometric-enhanced authentication into computer systems and design options for addressing them. Because biometrics are not secrets, systems must not use them like passwords; otherwise, biometric-based authentication will reduce security rather than increase it. A novel biometric-enhanced authentication system, based on a trusted camera that continuously uses face recognition to verify identity, is described and evaluated in the context of Linux. With cryptographically-signed messages and continuous authentication, the difficulty of bypassing desktop authentication can be significantly increased."

Download or read book Continuous Authentication Using Biometrics Data Models and Metrics written by Traore, Issa and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User authentication is the process of verifying whether the identity of a user is genuine prior to granting him or her access to resources or services in a secured environment. Traditionally, user authentication is performed statically at the point of entry of the system; however, continuous authentication (CA) seeks to address the shortcomings of this method by providing increased session security and combating insider threat. Continuous Authentication Using Biometrics: Data, Models, and Metrics presents chapters on continuous authentication using biometrics that have been contributed by the leading experts in this recent, fast growing research area. These chapters collectively provide a thorough and concise introduction to the field of biometric-based continuous authentication. The book covers the conceptual framework underlying continuous authentication and presents detailed processing models for various types of practical continuous authentication applications.

Download or read book Continuous Biometric Authentication Systems written by Max Smith-Creasey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-02-10 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an overview of the field of continuous biometric authentication systems, which capture and continuously authenticate biometrics from user devices. This book first covers the traditional methods of user authentication and discusses how such techniques have become cumbersome in the world of mobile devices and short usage sessions. The concept of continuous biometric authentication systems is introduced and their construction is discussed. The different biometrics that these systems may utilise (e.g.: touchscreen-gesture interactions) are described and relevant studies surveyed. It also surveys important considerations and challenges. This book brings together a wide variety of key motivations, components and advantages of continuous biometric authentication systems. The overview is kept high level, so as not to limit the scope to any single device, biometric trait, use-case, or scenario. Therefore, the contents of this book are applicable to devices ranging from smartphones to desktop computers, utilising biometrics ranging from face recognition to keystroke dynamics. It also provides metrics from a variety of existing systems such that users can identify the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches. This book targets researchers and lecturers working in authentication, as well as advanced-level students in computer science interested in this field. The book will also be of interest to technical professionals working in cyber security.

Download or read book Biometric Security written by Jiankun Hu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern biometrics delivers an enhanced level of security by means of a “proof of property”. The design and deployment of a biometric system, however, hide many pitfalls, which, when underestimated, can lead to major security weaknesses and privacy threats. Issues of concern include biometric identity theft and privacy invasion because of the strong connection between a user and his identity. This book showcases a collection of comprehensive references on the advances of biometric security technology. It compiles a total of fourteen articles, all contributed by thirty-two eminent researchers in the field, thus providing concise and accessible coverage of not only general issues, but also state-of-the-art solutions. The book is divided into five parts: (1) Biometric Template Protection, which covers cancellable biometrics and parameter management protocol; (2) Biometric Key and Encryption, focusing on biometric key generation and visual biometric cryptography; (3) Biometric Systems Analysis, dealing with biometric system security, and privacy evaluation and assessment; (4) Privacy-Enhanced Biometric Systems, covering privacy-enhanced biometric system protocol design and implementation; and (5) Other Biometric Security Technologies. The book will be of particular interest to researchers, scholars, graduate students, engineers, practitioners and developers interested in security and privacy-related issues in biometric systems. It will also be attractive to managers of various organizations with strong security needs.

Download or read book IT Policy and Ethics Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 1940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT policies are set in place to streamline the preparation and development of information communication technologies in a particular setting. IT Policy and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive collection of research on the features of modern organizations in order to advance the understanding of IT standards. This is an essential reference source for researchers, scholars, policymakers, and IT managers as well as organizations interested in carrying out research in IT policies.

Download or read book Security and Privacy in Biometrics written by Patrizio Campisi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important text/reference presents the latest secure and privacy-compliant techniques in automatic human recognition. Featuring viewpoints from an international selection of experts in the field, the comprehensive coverage spans both theory and practical implementations, taking into consideration all ethical and legal issues. Topics and features: presents a unique focus on novel approaches and new architectures for unimodal and multimodal template protection; examines signal processing techniques in the encrypted domain, security and privacy leakage assessment, and aspects of standardization; describes real-world applications, from face and fingerprint-based user recognition, to biometrics-based electronic documents, and biometric systems employing smart cards; reviews the ethical implications of the ubiquity of biometrics in everyday life, and its impact on human dignity; provides guidance on best practices for the processing of biometric data within a legal framework.

Download or read book Information and Communications Security written by Hideki Imai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-17 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2007, held in Zhengzhou, China, in December 2007. The papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on authentication and key exchange, digital signatures, applications, watermarking, fast implementations, applied cryptography, cryptanalysis, formal analysis, system security, and network security.

Download or read book Advancing Fingerprint enhanced Authentication written by Fawaz Alsaadi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history, the achievement of security through authentication has been filled with challenges. Technological evolution has created an unprecedented conjunction of scale and artifice that have turned our attention to authenticating individuals in the oldest of ways, their physical characteristics, which we now know as biometric authentication. Our trust in biometric authentication is founded upon our belief that certain physical characteristics are sufficiently invariant and proof from counterfeit. However, anytime value is entrusted to a belief, there are those who seek to test that belief, which has resulted in current attempts of implementing biometric authentication facing many limitations, bringing into question the extent to which they can be effective. This dissertation is concerned not with a physical characteristic, but the remnant of a physical characteristic. Fingerprints are impressions left by friction ridges. They are singular in that each finger produces a single, irreplaceable fingerprint. The locations and directions of certain aspects of friction ridges are the biometrics of fingerprints. Friction ridges are pliable, rendering fingerprints that vary, while combinations of aspects of these ridges may be common among many fingers. Recent events have brought into question the actual availability of fingerprints. Approaches to representing fingerprints as information must consistently capture the complexity of fingerprints despite variations while approaches to discriminating these representations must distinguish differences from the same finger from differences from different fingers despite variations and commonalities. Additionally, durable approaches to authentication must produce secure credentials unique to individual authentication applications that are readily replaceable when compromise occurs. This dissertation analyzes these challenges of utilizing fingerprints in authentication applications, discusses how they affect existing approaches, proposes novel approaches to address them, and evaluates these approaches.

Download or read book Securing Social Identity in Mobile Platforms written by Thirimachos Bourlai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents novel research in the areas of social identity and security when using mobile platforms. The topics cover a broad range of applications related to securing social identity as well as the latest advances in the field, including the presentation of novel research methods that are in the service of all citizens using mobile devices. More specifically, academic, industry-related and government (law enforcement, intelligence and defence) organizations, will benefit from the research topics of this book that cover the concept of identity management and security using mobile platforms from various perspectives, i.e. whether a user navigates to social media, accesses their own phone devices, access their bank accounts, uses online shopping service providers, accesses their personal documents or accounts with valuable information, surfs the internet, or even becomes a victim of cyberattacks. In all of the aforementioned cases, there is a need for mobile related technologies that protect the users’ social identity and well-being in the digital world, including the use of biometrics, cybersecurity software and tools, active authentication and identity anti-spoofing algorithms and more.

Download or read book Advances in User Authentication written by Dipankar Dasgupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to advances in the field of user authentication. The book covers detailed description of the authentication process as well as types of authentication modalities along with their several features (authentication factors). It discusses the use of these modalities in a time-varying operating environment, including factors such as devices, media and surrounding conditions, like light, noise, etc. The book is divided into several parts that cover descriptions of several biometric and non-biometric authentication modalities, single factor and multi-factor authentication systems (mainly, adaptive), negative authentication system, etc. Adaptive strategy ensures the incorporation of the existing environmental conditions on the selection of authentication factors and provides significant diversity in the selection process. The contents of this book will prove useful to practitioners, researchers and students. The book is suited to be used a text in advanced/graduate courses on User Authentication Modalities. It can also be used as a textbook for professional development and certification coursework for practicing engineers and computer scientists.

Download or read book Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment written by Sven Dietrich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2014, held in Egham, UK, in July 2014. The 13 revised full papers presented together with one extended abstract were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on malware, mobile security, network security and host security.

Download or read book Enhancing Information Security and Privacy by Combining Biometrics with Cryptography written by Sanjay Kanade and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with "crypto-biometrics", a relatively new and multi-disciplinary area of research (started in 1998). Combining biometrics and cryptography provides multiple advantages, such as, revocability, template diversity, better verification accuracy, and generation of cryptographically usable keys that are strongly linked to the user identity. In this text, a thorough review of the subject is provided and then some of the main categories are illustrated with recently proposed systems by the authors. Beginning with the basics, this text deals with various aspects of crypto-biometrics, including review, cancelable biometrics, cryptographic key generation from biometrics, and crypto-biometric key sharing protocols. Because of the thorough treatment of the topic, this text will be highly beneficial to researchers and industry professionals in information security and privacy. Table of Contents: Introduction / Cancelable Biometric System / Cryptographic Key Regeneration Using Biometrics / Biometrics-Based Secure Authentication Protocols / Concluding Remarks

Download or read book Biometric User Authentication for IT Security written by Claus Vielhauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biometric user authentication techniques evoke an enormous interest by science, industry and society. Scientists and developers constantly pursue technology for automated determination or confirmation of the identity of subjects based on measurements of physiological or behavioral traits of humans. Biometric User Authentication for IT Security: From Fundamentals to Handwriting conveys general principals of passive (physiological traits such as fingerprint, iris, face) and active (learned and trained behavior such as voice, handwriting and gait) biometric recognition techniques to the reader. Unlike other publications in this area that concentrate on passive schemes, this professional book reflects a more comprehensive analysis of one particular active biometric technique: handwriting. Aspects that are thoroughly discussed include sensor characteristic dependency, attack scenarios, and the generation of cryptographic keys from handwriting.

Download or read book Advances in Computers written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Computers, the latest volume in the series published since 1960, presents detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. In addition, it provides contributors with a medium in which they can explore their subjects in greater depth and breadth than journal articles usually allow. As a result, many articles have become standard references that continue to be of significant, lasting value in this rapidly expanding field. Provides in-depth surveys and tutorials on new computer technology Presents well-known authors and researchers in the field Contains extensive bibliographies with most chapters Includes volumes that are devoted to single themes or subfields of computer science

Download or read book Enhancing Usability and Security Through Alternative Authentication Methods written by Nicolas Jorge Van Balen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the expanding popularity of various Internet services, online users have be- come more vulnerable to malicious attacks as more of their private information is accessible on the Internet. The primary defense protecting private information is user authentication, which currently relies on less than ideal methods such as text passwords and PIN numbers. Alternative methods such as graphical passwords and behavioral biometrics have been proposed, but with too many limitations to replace current methods. However, with enhancements to overcome these limitations and harden existing methods, alternative authentications may become viable for future use. This dissertation aims to enhance the viability of alternative authentication systems. In particular, our research focuses on graphical passwords, biometrics that depend, directly or indirectly, on anthropometric data, and user authentication en- hancements using touch screen features on mobile devices. In the study of graphical passwords, we develop a new cued-recall graphical pass- word system called GridMap by exploring (1) the use of grids with variable input entered through the keyboard, and (2) the use of maps as background images. As a result, GridMap is able to achieve high key space and resistance to shoulder surfing attacks. To validate the efficacy of GridMap in practice, we conduct a user study with 50 participants. Our experimental results show that GridMap works well in domains in which a user logs in on a regular basis, and provides a memorability benefit if the chosen map has a personal significance to the user. In the study of anthropometric based biometrics through the use of mouse dy- namics, we present a method for choosing metrics based on empirical evidence of natural difference in the genders. In particular, we develop a novel gender classifi- cation model and evaluate the model’s accuracy based on the data collected from a group of 94 users. Temporal, spatial, and accuracy metrics are recorded from kine- matic and spatial analyses of 256 mouse movements performed by each user. The effectiveness of our model is validated through the use of binary logistic regressions. Finally, we propose enhanced authentication schemes through redesigned input, along with the use of anthropometric biometrics on mobile devices. We design a novel scheme called Triple Touch PIN (TTP) that improves traditional PIN number based authentication with highly enlarged keyspace. We evaluate TTP on a group of 25 participants. Our evaluation results show that TTP is robust against dictio- nary attacks and achieves usability at acceptable levels for users. We also assess anthropometric based biometrics by attempting to differentiate user fingers through the readings of the sensors in the touch screen. We validate the viability of this biometric approach on 33 users, and observe that it is feasible for distinguishing the fingers with the largest anthropometric differences, the thumb and pinkie fingers.

Download or read book Transparent User Authentication written by Nathan Clarke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking text examines the problem of user authentication from a completely new viewpoint. Rather than describing the requirements, technologies and implementation issues of designing point-of-entry authentication, the book introduces and investigates the technological requirements of implementing transparent user authentication – where authentication credentials are captured during a user’s normal interaction with a system. This approach would transform user authentication from a binary point-of-entry decision to a continuous identity confidence measure. Topics and features: discusses the need for user authentication; reviews existing authentication approaches; introduces novel behavioural biometrics techniques; examines the wider system-specific issues with designing large-scale multimodal authentication systems; concludes with a look to the future of user authentication.