...Retinal Biometric Security University of Maryland University College Abstract Retinal biometric security is a newer technology that is becoming increasingly popular, and with its advances in technology and increase in product suppliers, it’s undeniable that this is a growing methodology with surefire longevity. This method of biometric security is based on a retinal scan that involves the use of a low-intensity coherent light source projected onto the retina to illuminate the blood vessels, which are photographed and analyzed. Due to the intricacies, a retina scan cannot be replicated, as it is impossible to forge a human retina. Because of this fact, a retinal scan has an error rate of 1 in 10 million; compared to fingerprint identification error rates sometimes as high as 1 in 500 (Biometric Newsportal, n.d.). In all its greatness, as with any technology, it comes with both advantages and disadvantages throughout the various phases of implementation. With the pros vastly outweighing the cons, retinal biometrics has still created its own namespace and presence in the world of technology. With current retinal biometric applications and technologies being implemented in the financial, government, medical, and mobile sectors, it’s safe to bet that there is a great future laying ahead for this area of biometrics. Although there maybe anticipated competition, retinal scanning is currently leading the pack of biometrics methodologies and the trends prove that this will...
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...information about someone’s body, such as the patterns of colors in their eyes, which can be used to prove who they are.” But it goes beyond this definition. There are a variety of different scanning methods and devices used in biometric systems, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. An organization looking to use biometrics should consider the different types carefully according to their needs. The most essential purpose of biometrics is for identification and identity authentication. Biometrics “has to do with the verification of identities on the assumption that truly unique identifiers are found in the body”. This confirms or denies the right of an individual to perform a particular action such as access into a specific location. It raises suspicions about an individual’s motive, for instance a suspected terrorist at points of public vulnerability. Biometrics is believed to reduce and possibly eradicate the infiltration of the ‘unwanted’, coming as a solution to “the rising problem of identity theft/fraud coupled with the obsession of securing the inside”. Benjamin J. Muller believes that biometrics is certainly timely. He goes on to say “the unshakeable problem of identity theft/fraud are forwarded as challenges or rather problems that biometrics is only too capable of ‘resolving’”. A scanner, and probably the kind most often seen in movies, is a retinal or iris scanner. These function by either taking an image of a person’s eye (iris scanner,) or of 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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...BIOMETRICS BY: WILLIAM C. NEWTON SECR 5080 INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. TITLE PAGE………………………………………………………………………1 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………………………….2 3. ABSTRACT………………………………………………………………………..3 4. HISTORY…………………………………………………………………………..4 5. TYPES OF BIOMETRICS………………………………………………………….6 6. FACIAL RECOGNITION…………………………………………………………..7 7. RETNA SCANNER………………………………………………………………….8 8. FINGERPRINT……………………………………………………………………….9 9. HANDPRINT…………………………………………………………………………9 10. VOICE AUTHENTICATION………………………………………………………10 11. AUTHENTICATION………………………………………………………………...11 12. SUMMARY…………………………………………………………………………..11 13. REFERENCES………………………………………………………………………..12 ABSTRACT This paper previewed my research of biometrics from the early 500 BCs to the 21st century. Upon understanding some of the biometrics differences and earlier methods used, I think the world is definitely is a better place to live in, as well as a much safer world to be in. One example of how this was used to make the world a better place was where biometrics were used at the NFL Super Bowl game in Tampa, Florida. There are many different types and ways of using biometrics to prevent entry into certain places or even to catch criminals from further causing damage in society. Biometrics is the overall study of measurable characteristics, specifically in computer security biometrics refers to the different authentication techniques that rely on measurable physical characteristics...
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...generation to generation. The most advanced technology for identifying criminal suspects are biometric identification systems. Biometric identification defined as the process for identifying a person by human physical characteristics. Because each human unique, various parts of the human body are analyzed for comparison, and identification. Some forms of biometric identification are hand geometry, palm vein authentication, retina scan, iris scan, and facial scan recognition. The advantages of biometric technology are the extreme accuracy, and secured access to information. Retinal scan technology offers the proof that this technology has a near zero failure rate, which means that fooling this technology almost impossibility. Identification is fast as well, providing a system that is almost foolproof. The main pro of iris reading technology accuracy and alternation near impossible. Iris patterns do not require direct contact, and some scanners can focus on the eye finding the streaking patterns. The advances made in this area of expertise makes the iris reader scanner an excellent choice for law enforcement, and military applications (Blumenthal, 2010). Biometric Identification Methods Facial Recognition Facial recognition surveillance used often in law enforcement. The technology in law enforcement has its advantages and disadvantages because technology does not completely replace humans. The advantages of facial recognition surveillance help to deter crime, and capture...
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...fingerprints, palm prints, facial features, and iris information for various uses. This paper will discuss how biometrics is applied to police technology such as smart guns, iris scanners, fingerprint scanners, and facial recognition systems. This document hopes to provide police departments with enough information to make an informed decision on bringing biometric technology into their units. This document will also touch on amendment rights pertaining to biometric technology in order to make departments aware of how this technology pertains to a citizen’s civil rights. Biometrics is rapidly advancing in our society and police departments need to be aware of how beneficial this technology really is. Biometrics: How Are Police Departments Utilizing This Technology? Biometrics is defined as using inherent human characteristics as a form of identification and access control. There are more than six billion people on our planet and each one can be identified as different by their biometric characteristics (Baker, 2011). With that many people out there police officers now more than ever need a quick and accurate way to identify suspects when working the field. The way they are accomplishing this task is by using mobile biometric identifying devices such as fingerprint scanners, iris scanners, and facial recognition devices. Between the years 2000 and 2009, 584 officers were feloniously killed in the field, 82 percent of the people involved in those officers deaths had...
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...MRI Scan Patient Preparation When having an MRI examination, there is no preparation or dietary/NPO requirements. Special Nursing Considerations Patients cannot have halter monitors, telemetry units, nerve stimulation units or a IV pump in the magnet room Clothing Requirements No metal can enter the exam room, clothing with metal snaps or pins should not be worn. Jewelry, watches, rings etc should be left in a locker. Hairpins and dentures, should also be removed and left in a locker or outside the exam room Heavy facial makeup should not be worn as it may create artifacts on the image. Labs Labs are not required unless you have a history of impaired kidney function. However, allergy history records are necessary for contrast studies. Contraindication If you have a heart pacemaker or pacing wires, cerebal aneurysm or Swan Ganz catheter you cannot have an MRI under any circumstances! Pregnancy is a contraindication and will require patient consent for an MRI. All other history of metal fragments in the eye require orbit screening x-rays prior to your MRI. All other history of implants or surgery must be indicated to the technologist. The make and model of implants may be necessary (i.e. ear implants, heart valve replacements). The Exam Your exam will last between 30 and 60 minutes. You will need to lie still for periods of 3 to 10 minutes at a time while the series of images are collected. You can breathe freely during this time. You may, in some cases, be allowed to...
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...employer. Many people with knowledge of computers have got jobs in this field, and have successfully made a career out of it. Since it has changed the business world in such a dramatic way, Corporations need employees that have the skill to protect this values and private information. Information technology has helped one find cures for several diseases; thereby, serving mankind in plentiful ways. Many other programs have helped individuals that have visual or hearing impairment. Corporations use information in databases to run operating activities day to day. In the world we live in today information technology is only becoming more and integrated in our daily lives, as we know it. To the average human, not much is known about safety of their personal information on the World Wide Web. Since millions of people have all this information on the Internet, it’s only human nature for unethical people to find ways to access this information and do whatever with it. Many people have had their identities stolen last tons of their money. These “hackers” are very smart and have a special...
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...“Minority Report” where Tom Cruise gets retina transplants so he can sneak by security scanners all over the city of the future. That city of the future has already arrived in New York — but it’ll take a whole lot more than a new pair of peepers to trick this setup. An Israeli general is at work on a “biometric security” system that he believes will have New Yorkers tossing out their keys and maybe ditching their doormen, too. Using sophisticated scanners that can recognize a person’s face, voice, build and stride, the system can unlock your door in under two seconds. Any strangers not in the database will be denied access. “This is only the beginning,” says General Aharon Farkash, the founder and president of the firm FST21. “This is the way people will enter buildings in the 21st century.” To help establish FST21 in the states, Farkash opened a North American office earlier this month at 7 World Trade Center. Should you drop by, you’ll be greeted by one of its security devices. But unless he’s beamed a code to your phone or you work there already, there’s no convincing the small 8-inch scanner to let you in. The device looks simple on the outside, and in practice it is, essentially turning everyone into a human-size key. “Just like a fingerprint, we all look and act in a unique way,” Farkash says. “Biometric” technology has been around since the 1970s, and is often seen in thumb-print readers and retinal scanners. But thanks to less-invasive techniques...
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...The House of the Future would be built for convenience and customization. The house can change depending on who is walking through the rooms. The home has scanners that would read the family members’ retinas. Some of the customized systems in the house would be walls disappearing into the ceiling depending on if you want to shorten or expand rooms. You can also decide wall and carpet colors and designs too, if you desire. For instance furniture will automatically change to how a family member would like it. One couch would be glossy and pink to one family member, and be red and cushy to another. Beds would have an advanced technology called SnoozTec, which would sense the warmth or discomfort of a sleeper. It would automatically adjust the firmness, music, lights, and temperature of the bed. There would also be moving walkways on conveyor belts that could take you through your house. You would of course be able to control what speed and destination you want. Every family will have a rocket ship garage, because in the future humans will have already settled in, and take vacations on, other planets. If you care about the environment (which everyone should), then you can purchase the Green Machine for your house, which is a trashcan that you throw your waste in. Then, the trashcan simultaneously converts the trash into fuel for your rocket ship, and electricity for your house. Even though I love my house that I live in now, I am more excited for the House of the Future...
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...Obtaining the characteristics should be easy. Face recognition systems are not intrusive and it is easy to have face images. In the contrast the characteristic-DNA analysis requires a blood sample or other bodily sample which is difficult to collect. The retina scan is rather invasive sufficiently. • Performance: This term is referred for the possible identification or verification accuracy. The re-sources used and working or environmental conditions are needed to achieve comparative acceptable accuracy. The intersect accuracy of iris-based systems is reasonably acceptable as its permanence has long period. • Acceptability: This criterion indicates the acceptability of biometric technologies by peoples. The most acceptable face recognition systems are personally not intrusive, but there are some countries where taking pictures of persons is not allowed or supposed to be a crime. An infrared laser beam is required by the retina scanner which directed through the cornea of the eye becomes invasive and only few users accept this...
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...A formal letter addressing each employee about the introduction of the new CSS will prevent confusion and should cover the reasoning for the transition along with the safeguards being provided. An advanced-employee training program will provide employees with the knowledge required to achieve a seamless transition from their previous ID/Credit Card system. Training programs and procedures will also ensure that all legalities associated with the Biometrics Identification System are...
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...Introduction The purpose of this paper is to identify and implement pre-installation tasks, install and upgrade widows 2000, window XP, and window Vista, troubleshoot installation problems, indentify and post-installation taks, structures created during the installation process, indentify certain common input/output devices on a PC, and describe how certain specialty input/output devices work on a PC. Hardware requirements, making you’re your computer meets the recommended minimums for CPU, RAM, free hard disk space, video adapter, display, and other components. Check the windows logo’d Product list or the windows compatibility center at the Microsoft web site to verify that the windows version you’re installing supports the hardware and application software your will run. A clean OS installation takes place on a new hard drive or one that has been reformatted and repartitioned. You must reinstall all applications and reconfigure user preferences. In an upgrade installation, the new OS is installed in the directory where the old OS retains the hardware and software settings of the old OS, including user preferences. Before you upgrade, backup any data that the user has saved on the local hard drive. You can install window 2000 with floppy diskettes or a CD-ROM. Window XP does not create a set of setup boot disk and does not use a floppy disk by default you’re your install from the CD, you must add an optical drive to your PC’s boot sequence and boot directly to the windows...
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...Interested in learning more about security? SANS Institute InfoSec Reading Room This paper is from the SANS Institute Reading Room site. Reposting is not permitted without express written permission. Biometric Scanning Technologies: Finger, Facial and Retinal Scanning This paper discusses several Biometric scan technologies: finger-scan, facialscan and retinal-scan. We discuss the recent history of Biometrics and how it has been influenced by such pseudo-sciences as Phrenology, the study of human skull characteristics and Anthropometry, the study of human body measurement. We discuss how finger-scan technology was influenced by French and British police advancements in the nineteenth century and still remain the most widely used Biometric technology today. Facial-scan technology is ... AD Copyright SANS Institute Author Retains Full Rights fu ll r igh ts Key fingerprint = AF19 FA27 2F94 998D FDB5 DE3D F8B5 06E4 A169 4E46 © SA NS In sti tu te 20 03 ,A ut ho rr eta ins Edmund Spinella SANS GSEC Original Submission San Francisco, CA Dec 2002 28 May 2003 Biometric Scanning Technologies: Finger, Facial and Retinal Scanning Key fingerprint = AF19 FA27 2F94 998D FDB5 DE3D F8B5 06E4 A169 4E46 © SANS Institute 2003, As part of the Information Security Reading Room. Author retains full rights. Abstract © SA NS In sti tu te 20 03 ,A ut ho rr eta ...
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...LG G5 will experience an upgrade including the security, memory, durability, power and speed. It will have newest features: sport wireless charging technology, will have bigger screen, 4K display, 20 MP camera, 3D camera, retina eye scanner and an octa-core processor. LG G5 comes with a large display of 5.6 inches with having a flexible slim design which has the most curved surface on it. The phone will have Corning Gorilla glass protection on both sides to protect it from scratches and dust. The G4 had 1440 X 2560 pixels resolution, but upcoming LG G5 will have True HD picture resolution which is going to provide superb picture quality while playing high-end games. It will come with improved metallic deign with super slim body, latest Snapdragon 820 processor running with 4GB RAM, about 4000 mAh. Also LG G5 will come with incredible camera specs, it has 20 Megapixels camera at the back with having advanced autofocus and LED flash while at the front it has 10 MP HD snapper. The G5 will have upgraded OIS, gravity, proximity, barometer, pro light sensors, smile and face detection and multi-gesture. Last but not least it’s the biometric iris recognition scanner for upcoming LG G5 Smartphone. With this technology G5 will be able to detect your Retina up to 50 centimeters distance. Smartphone’s price in USA is $900 USD and in Europe around 805 Euro. History of brand communication (previous campaigns) Latest LG'S campaigns in phone industry were related to previous...
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