Vulnerabilities of Biometric System
Puja Sahay Prasad · 2013
Biometric security systems are nowadays being introduced in many applications, such as access control, sensitive data protection, on-line tracking systems, etc., due to their advantages over traditional security approaches. Nevertheless, they are also susceptible to external vulnerabilities of biometric systems so that their weaknesses can be found and useful countermeasures against foreseeable attacks can be developed. These attacks are attacks that can decrease their security level. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to analyse the intended to either avoid the security afforded by the system or to deter the normal functioning of the system. In this paper I describe the various threats that can be catched by a biometric system. I specifically focus on attacks designed to elicit information about the original biometric data of an individual from the stored template Furthermore, I discuss the solution related to the threat.