doi: 10.7763/IJET.2012.V4.373
Towards the Security Evaluation of Biometric Authentication Systems
- 1 the University of Caen Basse- Normandie in 2011
- 2 the University of Caen Basse-Normandie and works on template update strategies for biometric systems
- 3 the the University of Caen Basse-Normandie in2009
- 4 the biometrics field at orange labs
- 5 the the University of Rennes I in 1999. since2007
Abstract
Despite the obvious advantages of biometric authentication systems over traditional security ones (based on tokens or passwords), they are vulnerable to attacks which may considerably decrease their security. In order to contribute in resolving such problematic, we propose a modality-independent evaluation methodology for the security evaluation of biometric systems. It is based on the use of a database of common threats and vulnerabilities of biometric systems, and the notion of risk factor. The proposed methodology produces a security index which characterizes the overall security level of biometric systems. We have applied it on two different biometric systems (one research laboratory implementation of keystroke dynamics and a commercial system for physical access control using fingerprints) for clarifying its benefits.
Keywords
- Biometrics
- security evaluation
- threat
- vulnerability
- risk factor
How to Cite
Mohamad El-Abed, Romain Giot, Baptiste Hemery, Jean-Jacques Schwartzmann, and Christophe Rosenberger, "Towards the Security Evaluation of Biometric Authentication Systems," International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 315-320, 2012. https://doi.org/ 10.7763/IJET.2012.V4.373
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Copyright © 2012 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).