...Executive Summary Just Relaxed Inc. (JRI) has to choose a Customer Service System (CSS) to ensure a continuous competitive advantage in the vacation spa industry. The choice is between a radio frequency identification (RFID) system, and a biometrics system. Please note that this is an interim report and we plan to research these options in more detail and come up with a third possible alternative. Of these two choices so far, the fingerprint biometrics system is the most secure (and less invasive compared to an iris scan) and causes customers the least amount of inconvenience. RFID tags can get lost, damaged, or stolen making them less secure and more of a hassle. Fingerprint biometrics is secure, because fingerprints are unique and convenient,...
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...the near future. It has been called ''biometrics". The pioneers of this new domain intend to construct devices which would allow identification of a person on the basis of his or her ''biological'' characteristics which is voice, movements, features of face and other parts of the body, retina or iris pattern. Nature has made human beings with different characteristics which may vary from one person to another. This property is made use of by Biometric technology to distinctly identify each person. This paper gives an overview of key biometric technologies and basic technique involved. The various opportunities for biometrics are mentioned, followed by the the benefits of the biometric and identification, the actual issue or current potential problems and abuses, and appropriate guidelines of identification and biometrics technology. Introduction Biometric technology involves effective methods of individual identification/authentication through its recognition of unique physiological characteristics. Although still a developing technology which contains deficiencies, it is generally considered to be a highly accurate and widely applicable security measure. However, growing public awareness of this technology has been accompanied by increasing concerns about ethical issues associated with its use. Biometric Systems Biometrics are automated methods of recognizing a person based on a physiological or behavior characteristics. Biometrics technologies are becoming the foundation...
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...Abstract Biometrics has garnered considerable interest from both the Government and private industry. This interest has lead to a number of biometric technologies each with their own share of strengths and weaknesses. The process used in the verification and identification of people using fingerprint, retina-based, iris-based, hand geometry, and facial recognition biometrics are examined in this paper. The advantages and disadvantages of each of these methods are also explored. The future of biometrics is also considered given the current developments in the field. Organizations are constantly looking for a more secure authentication method for their users to gain access to e-commerce and other security applications. Biometrics continues to gain more and more attention. What is biometrics the right decision for your corporation? If you choose to use biometrics, which is the biometric solution for your corporation, there is no such thing as any one best type of biometrics. Different applications necessitate the use of different biometrics. In order to select the right biometric for your solution as a user you will need to investigate a myriad of vendor products while keeping an eye on future development and technology. Never before have there been more various and more varied options. Vendors have a wide variety of products to select from. Some are new to the market but even these can be considerably better and greatly improve your company security stance. The focus...
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...The Proper and Ethical Application of Biometrics IFSM 201 – A Practical Introduction to Computers and Communications As the advancement of technology continues to flourish within the modern age, so too have the capabilities and ruthlessness of predators looking to exploit the weaknesses of some for their own personal gains. In order to safeguard and protect the privacies of technological users, technology has also adapted its growth to find better and more fail safe measures by which to guard the individual users. Having evolved from rudimentary passwords, to pin codes and card readers, to encrypted data relying on the application of the aforementioned safeguards, one of the newest and more failsafe applications to guard a person or companies privacy has become the application of biometrics. Biometric devices have helped institute a safeguard that, while not completely “hack proof,” is exponentially harder to replicate as it requires almost 100% reproduction on an individual’s personal body characteristics. Using a variety of biometric devices, a person or company can safeguard their privacies by relying on the one thing they think is immune to a host of scams to gain access – themselves. While the applications of such devices are gaining a stronger foothold among the masses, now enters an additional task to the workforce. Employers and individuals must ensure that they are using the technology practically, and ethically, in order to achieve maximum results without...
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...Executive Summary Just Relaxed Inc. (JRI) has to choose a Customer Service System (CSS) to ensure a continuous competitive advantage in the vacation spa industry. The choice is between a radio frequency identification (RFID) system, and a biometrics system. Please note that this is an interim report and we plan to research these options in more detail and come up with a third possible alternative. Of these two choices so far, the fingerprint biometrics system is the most secure (and less invasive compared to an iris scan) and causes customers the least amount of inconvenience. RFID tags can get lost, damaged, or stolen making them less secure and more of a hassle. Fingerprint biometrics is secure, because fingerprints are unique and convenient,...
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...Biometrics 125 years ago, winter 1879, Paris First agency police prefecture clerk Alphonse Bertillion was sitting in dark cold corner of huge file-cabinet room, where there were stored files on all Parisian criminals. A.Bertillion was entering the criminals’ description. He found out that there is no classification system, since: a) Criminals could easily change their names, and attempts to try different systems (by age, criminal method) end up in failure. Bertillion, son of Lui Bertillion – president of the Anthropological society, came up with an idea to utilize anthropological parameters (height, length and volume of the head, length of the hands, fingers, etc.) to identify personality. This was a break-through in criminalistics. With the development of electronics, Bertillioon’s theory was recalled and scientists realized that human beings have numerous unique characteristics beginning from the iris of the eye to the fingerprints and all these characteristics can be used in personality identification. With the rapid development of computer technologies, the concept of information security is becoming more and more important. Crime scene investigators have been using behavioral and physical characteristics for centuries in order to identify the criminals, nowadays; we have a great need for identification and authorization in information security. Information Security is being understood as a protection of the information and informational infrastructure...
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...ACCESS CONTROL IN SUPPORT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE Version 2, Release 2 26 DECEMBER 2008 Developed by DISA for the DoD UNCLASSIFIED Access Control in Support of Information Systems STIG, V2R2 26 December 2008 DISA Field Security Operations Developed by DISA for the DoD This page is intentionally blank. ii UNCLASSIFIED Access Control in Support of Information Systems STIG, V2R2 26 December 2008 DISA Field Security Operations Developed by DISA for the DoD TABLE OF CONTENTS Page SUMMARY OF CHANGES...................................................................................................... IX 1. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 2. Background ..................................................................................................................... 1 Authority ......................................................................................................................... 2 Scope............................................................................................................................... 3 Writing Conventions....................................................................................................... 3 Vulnerability Severity Code Definitions ........................................................................ 4 STIG Distribution .......
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...Biometrics in Schools, Colleges and other Educational Institutions The following guidance has been prepared as an aid to schools, colleges and other educational institutions that may be considering the installation and use of a biometric system. This document is intended to encourage such institutions to fully consider if there is need for a biometric system in the first place and then to assess the privacy impact of different systems. The critical issues to be considered from a data protection perspective are the proportionality of introducing a biometric system and the requirement to obtain the signed consent of the student users (and their parents or guardians in the case of minors) giving them a clear and unambiguous right to opt out of the system without penalty. The document is not intended to promote any particular system, but is intended to make schools and colleges aware of their responsibilities under the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003. It is the use of a biometric system that may give rise to a data protection concern, not necessarily the production or sale of a system. All situations must be judged on a case-by-case basis. 1. Different types of Biometric systems All biometric systems operate on the basis of the automatic identification or authentication/verification of a person. What differs between systems is the nature of the biometric and the type of storage. 1.1 Information used to generate biometric data Biometric data may be created from physical or physiological...
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...Biometrics Technology in Healthcare sector Miss Chawisa Srisinthara Mr. Sangsan Poonyapotapirata Miss Chadaporn Champangoen Miss Tanwarat Trangpanich Mr. Ekapol Koosuwan NIDA Business School National Institute of Development Administration 118 Seri Thai Road, Bangkapi, Bangkok 10240, Thailand Email : Caocao_akatsuki@hotmail.com Tel. +66890710010 Biometrics Technology in Healthcare sector ABSTRACT Nowadays, Biometrics has become an important system in a process for all industries due to this technology can help the companies to manage the data such as gathering, integration, and summary. The companies can also apply this system in every working process steps. Besides, the data can be transferred from paper-based data into computer-based data which is convenience, safety, and accuracy. Moreover, The Biometrics system provides excellence operation and improves productivity. Especially, the biometrics system should be executed in healthcare industry because the patient information is classified and considerable for healthcare providers. 1. Introduction The “Biometrics” is the combination of “Bio” which means a creature and “Metrics” which means a characteristic that can be measured and estimated an amount. So, Biometrics is the biological technology that integrates between biological, medical, and computer technology. It use for measure physiological characteristics and behaviors that is the individual character of each person for identification...
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...Investigation into Biometric Technologies and the Development of a Fingerprint Recognition Application Student Name: Robert Heaney ST No: 10550804. Supervisor: Jonathan G. Wallace . . . . . . . . . . Note: Incomplete, this document is currently in draft Abstract This preliminary document covers the presentation phase of a final year BSc (Hons) computing science project aiming to investigate biometric technologies and develop a fingerprint recognition application to allow logging of student attendance at lectures. The introduction offers some background to the project and establishes the aims and objectives of the project overall. Following on from the introduction, the literature review presents a critique of research material that provides the basis for the project. This material includes a number of texts, journals and research papers as well as additional information sourced from the Web. As drawn from the literature, the subject areas covered include; history and background to modern biometrics; technological, social, organisational and environmental influences; key technologies in the market today; design issues, including security, performance and testing. In chapter 3, attention turns to requirements analysis for the development of a fingerprint recognition system. The process follows a requirements engineering approach to development by formally establishing user requirements and allowing continuous requirements assessment...
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...of the system, allowing for a quick and simple implementation and employee training cycle, after all the true test of a system is not only in the production and wealth of reporting, but in the simplicity and ease of its operation in conjunction with a simple and accommodating implementation program. Better humans (2003) stated that a wireless fingerprint scanner could soon be helping law enforcement agencies; government and the military instantly identity the scanner, called sweet fingerprint, today. It is being demonstrated at the government convention one merging technologies, which addresses issues of homeland security Scanned fingerprint can also be used to query a database for someone’s profile, using automated fingerprint identification system, and the profile can then be sent to a mobile device such as a personal digital assistant. According to the related article mentioned above, fingerprint scanning technology has been used in many fields as a means of security to confidential...
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...Investigation into Biometric Technologies and the Development of a Fingerprint Recognition Application . . . . . . . . . . Note: Incomplete, this document is currently in draft Abstract This preliminary document covers the presentation phase of a final year BSc (Hons) computing science project aiming to investigate biometric technologies and develop a fingerprint recognition application to allow logging of student attendance at lectures. The introduction offers some background to the project and establishes the aims and objectives of the project overall. Following on from the introduction, the literature review presents a critique of research material that provides the basis for the project. This material includes a number of texts, journals and research papers as well as additional information sourced from the Web. As drawn from the literature, the subject areas covered include; history and background to modern biometrics; technological, social, organisational and environmental influences; key technologies in the market today; design issues, including security, performance and testing. In chapter 3, attention turns to requirements analysis for the development of a fingerprint recognition system. The process follows a requirements engineering approach to development by formally establishing user requirements and allowing continuous requirements assessment throughout the project life-cycle. The design approach and methodology used to model the...
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...Biometric Authentication System for Information Security Objective To explain about biometric system that can be used by the organization. By understand the biometric differences; organization can decide which technique is the most suitable for the business. Methodology The method used to know about biometric is scientific literature which will develop quantitative identification as the measurement for the authentication. Outcome To give better understanding about biometric system, biometric techniques as well as the advantages and disadvantages of biometric use in organization. Conclusion Organization can understand better value of biometric system and what is needed to implement the biometric system into the company. Keywords Biometrics CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Since January 2008, the technology had developed rapidly causing the world advancing towards a new era. A survey on 2008 had estimated about 541.7 million computers are connected in more than 250 countries on every continent even Antarctica. The internet is not a single network but it is a worldwide network that connected every individual computer hosts to network connection, in a variety ways. Thus, individuals and organizations can reach the internet without regard to national or geographic boundaries or time of day. However, along with the advantages and easy access to get information, there are also many risks such as the valuable information will be lost, stolen, changed or misused...
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...the first biometric security systems appeared in the market, an increasing demand for novel techniques that will cover all different scenarios, has been observed. Every new method appears to outmatch some of its competitors but, at the same time, presents disadvantages compared to others. However, there is still no method that consists a single panacea to all different scenarios and demands for security. This is the reason for which researchers are on a continuous effort for more efficient and generic biometric modalities that can be used in various applications. In this chapter, emerging biometric modalities that appeared in the last years in order to improve the performance of biometric recognition systems, are presented. The presented methods are divided in two major categories, intrusive and non-intrusive ones, according to the level of user nuisance that each system sets off. 1 Introduction Biometric recognition is a well-known research area that aims to provide more efficient solutions to everyday growing human need for security. Biometrics refers to methods that can be used for uniquely recognizing humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral characteristics. In information technology, in particular, biometrics are used as a tool for efficient and reliable identity management and access control. Biometrics are also used in surveillance applications in order to identify individuals. The last decade, a large number of novel biometric modalities...
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...arbitrary viewpoints is an important requirement for different applications such as intelligent environments, surveillance and access control. Human gait is an attractive modality for recognizing people at a distance. Human gait is a spatio-temporal phenomenon that characterizes the motion characteristics of an individual. There is an increased interest in gait as a biometric, mainly due to its nonintrusive as well as non-concealable nature. It is possible to detect and measure gait even in low resolution video. Our goal is to establish a simple baseline method for human identification based on body shape and gait. Our project describes a representation of the dynamics of human walking action for the purpose of person identification and classification by gait appearance. The outer contour of the binarized silhouette of a walking person is chosen as the basic image feature. This project is also based on face recognition software to obtain recognition in a short period of time interval after the image is searched.. Since there has been significant improvement in the sector of retrieval systems and recognition based on biometric systems the project gains a lot of weightage in terms of research carried out. 1 Introduction 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 IMAGE PROCESSING: Image Processing is a technique to enhance raw images received from cameras or sensors placed on satellites, space probes, aircrafts, surveillance systems or pictures taken in normal day-to-day life for various applications...
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