Towards the Security Evaluation of Biometric Authentication Systems

摘要：

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.

关键词： Biometrics security evaluation threat vulnerability risk factor

作者: Mohamad El-Abed Romain Giot Baptiste Jean-Jacques Schwartzmann

作者单位: Hemery and Christophe Rosenberger GREYC Laboratory ENSICAEN - University of CAEN - CNRS Caen, France Orange Labs Caen, France

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2011 International Conference on Security Science and Technology(ICSST 2011) (2011年安全科学与技术国际会议)

会议地点: 重庆

会议语种:英文

页码: 167-173

在线出版日期: 2011-01-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）