USING BIOMETRICS TO IMPROVE INTERNET E-BUSINESS SECURITY: A NEW APPROACH
Johnnes Arreymbi, V. Odiah, Anthony Chukwuemeka Ijeh, Ali A. Babatunde · 2011
Over the past five years, there has been an upsurge in the application and use of biometrics authentication systems on varied IT infrastructure. Today for example, biometric identification and authentication is widely used in airport security, border controls and corporate network security. Most importantly, and in the quest for a more advanced security system to cater for the present day internet e-business environment, the use of biometrics has come to prominent focus. However, using biometrics across insecure communication networks such as the internet has enormous implications and brand new challenges; especially in the wake of increasing and highly sophisticated cyber-crimes such as Identity theft and phishing. The bigger question then arises, what happens when a user's biometrics information is stolen online? This paper proposes a two-layered e-biometric identification and authentication model that aims to prevent the fraudulent used of stolen or spoofed biometrics data. Keyword - Biometrics, Two-layered e- biometrics model, BioDater Security Model (BDSM), Internet e-business Security, Biometric security, identification and authentication, Information Systems security, Cybercrime, e-crime, Identity theft and Phishing.