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Identity Management with Biometrics

By : Lisa Bock
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Identity Management with Biometrics

By: Lisa Bock

Overview of this book

Biometric technologies provide a variety of robust and convenient methods to securely identify and authenticate an individual. Unlike a password or smart card, biometrics can identify an attribute that is not only unique to an individual, but also eliminates any possibility of duplication. Identity Management with Biometrics is a solid introduction for anyone who wants to explore biometric techniques, such as fingerprint, iris, voice, palm print, and facial recognition. Starting with an overview of biometrics, you’ll learn the various uses and applications of biometrics in fintech, buildings, border control, and many other fields. You’ll understand the characteristics of an optimal biometric system and then review different types of errors and discover the benefits of multi-factor authentication. You’ll also get to grips with analyzing a biometric system for usability and accuracy and understand the process of implementation, testing, and deployment, along with addressing privacy concerns. The book outlines the importance of protecting biometric data by using encryption and shows you which factors to consider and how to analyze them before investing in biometric technologies. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with a variety of recognition processes and be able to make the right decisions when implementing biometric technologies.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1 –Understanding Biometric Authentication
6
Section 2 – Applying Biometric Technologies
12
Section 3 – Deploying a Large-Scale Biometric System

Summary

With the rapid advances in the ability to capture and process biometric identifiers, along with overall improvements in technology, we now see that the business world has embraced biometrics as a people-centric solution to authentication. In this chapter, we took a look at what makes a good biometric identifier as we examined some of the desired qualities, such as robustness, its unchanging nature over time, its collectability, and the need to prevent circumvention. We examined the general operation of biometric technology, from initiating contact with the system, to acquiring the image and preparing it for comparison, and then determining whether there is a match and presenting the results.

We evaluated how you may encounter different environments when dealing with biometric authentication, including whether the system is attended or non-attended, public or private, and whether or not the system will use standards for data collection, compression, and format, or internally...