Furthermore, biometric door locks are becoming increasingly popular in home use because they are convenient (no need to fumble around looking for keys) and they are more reliable security-wise than traditional locks. They can be used by scanning one's fingerprints, retina or other parts of the body that make an individual entirely unique ("Biometric Access Control" 1)
As Clarke and Furnell, explain, in business, biometrics is based "not on what the user knows, or what they carry, but who the user is, some unique characteristic." (2) One method that is becoming more and more popular is keystroke analysis, which "authenticates the user based upon their typing characteristics" (Clarke and Furnell 1)
Some schools use portable scanners to collect digital images of the students' fingerprints, which need to be updated regularly as the students grow and their fingers change. Biometrics is used for everything from the authentication of new transfer students, to providing the ability to buy lunch in the cafeteria without cash, to checking out books from the library to recording student attendance (Graziano 1)
Biometrically authenticating identification by machine is highly accurate and, more important, it is highly usable personal information. It allows institutions to collect data and index it to precise and highly accurate human identifiers, making it useful in countless ways (Vacca 13-14)
Biometric identification systems may use fingerprints, iris patterns, blood vessel structure of the hands, and even thermographic facial imaging (Busch, 2006). Weighing the Pros and Cons of Biometric Security Enhancements: On one hand, biometrics offers security enhancement in many significant respects; on the other hand, biometrics are by no means foolproof, which has been demonstrated conclusively, such as in connection with several incidents reported in 2006 (Bulkeley, 2006)
This mechanisms increase access security because unlike passwords, the identifying criteria cannot be easily lost, forgotten, shared, stolen, or used to facilitate unauthorized system or physical access. Biometric identification systems may use fingerprints, iris patterns, blood vessel structure of the hands, and even thermographic facial imaging (Busch, 2006)
Much like the case with traditional locks and keys to control physical access, the degree of security offered by different forms of biometrics depends largely on the sophistication of the entities seeking to circumvent them. Just as standard locks are sufficient to thwart simple attempts to defeat them but not well-conceived or sophisticated methods of infiltration, biometric security measures are likely to be highly successful against low-level attempts to defeat them but less impervious with respect to more sophisticated attacks (Hamilton, 2007)
National security experts suggest that biometrics are indeed a viable addition to computer and physical facility security measures, but emphasize the need to combine them with other layers of security measures. Specifically, one of the most important considerations in that regard is simply understanding the nature of the specific risks of system compromises associated with each potential application (Larsen, 2007)
Unsophisticated biometric systems are already available at relatively affordable prices but they are unsuitable for many sensitive assets and applications. Sufficiently sophisticated biometrics systems to safeguard highly sensitive assets and information systems are comparatively cost prohibitive for small and medium-sized business entities (Mills & Byun, 2006)
Within the Libertarian framework, as well as to an extent in the framework of the liberal philosophy "only persons are right-holders; for them groups or society are metaphysical conceptions and cannot be rights-holders." (Weber, 2006) From this view, "
Facial recognition systems are part of an attempt to reduce insecurity through knowledge and vision, but paradoxically, their use may add to insecurity by transforming society in unanticipated directions." (Gray, 2003) the potential of facial recognition systems is stated by Gray to be "the seamless integration of linked databases of human images and the automated digital recollection of the past - will necessarily alter societal conceptions of privacy as well as the dynamics of individual and group interactions in public space
This authentication and verification procedure thus is an added layer of security to the existing layers that also doubles up as a procedure for IT security auditing and hence traces the paths and features, programs and directories accessed by the user. Any instance of breach or unauthorized access is thus asserted and can be attended to for further consideration (Lawton, 2015)
If requested, the same token is utilized by other servers as a part of the same browser family to allow access to the client without further prompts for credentials. Thus SSO deployment allows access within an environment with a single point of entry (Bauman, 2012)
, 2008), AOL OpenAuth (AOL LLC., 2008), along with Facebook Connect (Facebook, Inc
Web SSO systems To employ Web SSO successfully, major service providers and content hosting services have devised ways via which other sites can acknowledge client access and authorize access from their own domains (e.g., Microsoft LiveID (Oppliger, 2004), Yahoo BBAuth (Yahoo Inc
, auto complete), as opposed to those actualized as an addendum to programs (e.g., Password Multiplier (Halderman, Waters & Felten, 2005))
Such password managers alleviate the trouble of juggling with multiple passwords. Yet, clients do face issues while shifting passwords from standalone to system structures (Chiasson, van Oorschot, & Biddle, 2006)
Yet, clients do face issues while shifting passwords from standalone to system structures (Chiasson, van Oorschot, & Biddle, 2006). Such frameworks normally have problem transporting of passwords from one PC to another (Chiasson, van Oorschot & Biddle, 2006), and clients may feel insecure about them (Gaw & Felten, 2006)
Such ease can also be vulnerability as through knowledge of access to one instance of data entry, the intruder would be able to access the entire database using the same repeatability that made task of the users and administrators simpler. (Clercq & Grillenmeier, 2007)
Exploration in the field of web SSO security encompasses topics like, conflicts of usage about Open ID (Sun et. al, 2011), phishing assaults' possibilities (Messina, 2009), and concerns about confidentiality and privacy (Pfitzmann & Waidner, 2003; Uruena & Busquiel, 2010)