Application of Multi-criteria Analysis for the Creation of a Risk Assessment Knowledgebase for Biometric Systems

Dimitriadis, Christos K.; Polemi, Despina

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-25948-0_98

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“…• system configuration There are several classification schemes vulnerability [2], suggesting a generalized list of vulnerabilities of the biometric systems:…”

Section: Decision Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

Biometric Systems Security

2017

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“…• system configuration There are several classification schemes vulnerability [2], suggesting a generalized list of vulnerabilities of the biometric systems:…”

Section: Decision Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

Biometric Systems Security

2017

SBNA

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“…Dimitriadis & Polemi (2004) [51] present a security comparison study of several biometric technologies in order to be used as an access control system for stadiums. The presented method can be used easily in comparing biometric systems since it is a quantitative-based method.…”

Section: Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of Biometric Systems

El-Abed¹,

Giot²,

Rosenberger³

2012

New Trends and Developments in Biometrics

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International audienceBiometrics is considered as a promising solution among traditional methods based on "what we own" (such as a key) or "what we know" (such as a password). It is based on "what we are" and "how we behave". Few people know that biometrics have been used for ages for identification or signature purposes. In 1928 for example, fingerprints were used for women clerical employees of Los Angeles police department as depicted in Figure 1. Fingerprints were also already used as a signature for commercial exchanges in Babylon (-3000 before JC). Alphonse Bertillon proposed in 1879 to use anthropometric information for police investigation. Nowadays, all police forces in the world use this kind of information to resolve crimes. The first prototypes of terminals providing an automatic processing of the voice and digital fingerprints have been defined in the middle of the years 1970. Nowadays, biometric authentication systems have many applications [1]: border control, e-commerce, etc. The main benefits of this technology are to provide a better security, and to facilitate the authentication process for a user. Also, it is usually difficult to copy the biometric characteristics of an individual than most of other authentication methods such as passwords. Despite the obvious advantages of biometric systems, their proliferation was not as much as attended. The main drawback is the uncertainty of the verification result. By contrast to password checking, the verification of biometric raw data is subject to errors and represented by a similarity percentage (100% is never reached). Others drawbacks related to vulnerabilities and usability issues exist. In addition, in order to be used in an industrial context, the quality of a biometric system must be precisely quantified. We need a reliable evaluation methodology in order to put into obviousness the benefit of a new biometric system. Moreover, many questions remain: Shall we be confident in this technology? What kind of biometric modalities can be used? What are the trends in this domain? The objective of this chapter is to answer these questions, by presenting an evaluation methodology of biometric systems

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“…Most of the existing methods rely on the combination on knowledge extracted from questionnaires and interviews [19] [20]. Others [10] [21], use predefined risk factors for each identified vulnerability, based on the estimation of experts who studied the likelihood of occurrence of vulnerability exploits. A risk factor, for each identified threat and vulnerability, is considered as an indicator of its importance.…”

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“…The Common Criteria Biometric Evaluation Working Group [9] presents 15 threats that may need to be considered when evaluating biometric systems for vulnerabilities. Dimitriadis et al [10] present a study for evaluating the security level of an access control system for stadiums based on biometric technologies. They present a list of 12 vulnerabilities of biometric systems.…”

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Towards the Security Evaluation of Biometric Authentication Systems

El-Abed¹,

Giot²,

Hemery³

et al. 2012

IJET

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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.

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Application of Multi-criteria Analysis for the Creation of a Risk Assessment Knowledgebase for Biometric Systems

Cited by 11 publications

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Biometric Systems Security

Biometric Systems Security

Evaluation of Biometric Systems

Towards the Security Evaluation of Biometric Authentication Systems

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