Answer To: Research Report: Biometrics for authentication: security and privacy implications (1200 Words)- USE...
Soumi answered on Apr 24 2021
Running Head: BIOMETRICS FOR AUTHENTICATION 1
BIOMETRICS FOR AUTHENTICATION 10
RESEARCH REPORT: BIOMETRICS FOR AUTHENTICATION: SECURITY AND PRIVACY IMPLICATIONS
Abstract
In the current report, the use of biometric technology and its associated issues with its application for security and privacy aspect has been discussed. At first, the report gives a detailed introduction to the topic and also provides the relevance of discussed report topic, followed by an overview of the technology, its application, the eminent challenged, and issues the technology faces, in sequence. Considering the fact that biometric details of a human being, such as the fingerprint patterns, pitch of voice and arrangement of the ridges of the iris, biometric security was developed and are widely used in professional and personal privacy retention.
The security challenged mentioned include the likes of authentication hacking, database vulnerability, cost, application limitation and many more. With the help of the developed report, the issues of biometrics would be better understood and based on the findings better solutions will be formulated, which again would give the future direction of the biometric technology will be better comprehended. Considering the fact that in future, the use of information technology devices will increase and digitisation of data will be evident, biometric technology would play an important part in it.
Table of Contents
Introduction 4
Overview of Biometric Technology 4
Application of Biometric Technology 5
Problems and Challenges of Using Biometric Technology 6
Gaps in Current Literature 7
Future Direction Based on Identified Gaps 7
Reference 9
Introduction
With the increasing adaptation of Information Technology (IT) in business sectors and industries, the need to secure the IT data increased. In order to provide security to data and information of both – personal and professional, digital codes, passwords and pattern locks were used for authentic access regulations, which retained comparatively higher risk of data breach and hacking. The use of digital character based password setting also retained the chances of unauthorised persons getting the information and using them to access data.
A person’s biometric details, being exclusive to the person, remain very difficult for another person to replicate and the chances of authentication data match is very rare (Aloudat, Michael and Abbas, 2016). Despite the potential benefits of biometric technology in the field of security and privacy retention, the ease of using, complexity the user-centric algorithms make it difficult to use for large scale user base with limited number of authentication devices. In the current report, the use of biometric technology along with its issues and future scope has been discussed to locate sustainable future growth scope for the technological usage.
Overview of Biometric Technology
The use of biometric technology has been in usage since ages, however, the form of digitisation of biometric technology and large-scale application was done in later parts. In earlier times, as observed by Corcoran and Costache (2016), the identity of a person was recorded based on the measurement of the physical attributes such as height, body length, walking style and size of hand and feet. Although the earlier form of biometric were manual and the degree of errors were very high. Afterwards the digitisation of the biometric technology, as mentioned by Oloyede and Hancke (2016), took place...