However there are several weakness of biometrics-based authentication systems too. Some are internal such as voice recognition type may fail in noisy environment or due to an illness/throat infection of user. Some consider finger print scanners as vector source and may not cooperate with using it. Outside attacks may include fake data presentation, stealing traces, using Trojan horse code instead of matcher or simply overriding the match/un-match result. Infact its not just the technical asect of security breach that we need to worry about. A simlke act of corruption loke bribing the person incharge of the biometric data can undermine biometrics security.

The consequences can be severely damaging. The attacker can choose to either invariably restrict or grant access to anyone, or change right of access as desired.

Additional research needs to be done for biometric implementations and those aspects of security that cannot be reduced to just bits and bytes.

Overall, Biometric system of security offers a secure, fast, easy-to-use method of security. It is being heavily invested on by government and business people alike.

1. the mess registration system.

2. One of the online certificate course that I did required me to do face verification(via webcam) and type a paragraph

3. As we do this padlet, our hostel entrance too has installed a 'fingerprint' scan type security. It is yet to be started but still, it speaks volume!

How much effective is biometric system as compared to the traditional method of passwords.

What are the possible solutions to the problems mentioned in summary?

1.  FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) is a NoE (Network of Excellence) supported by the European Union under the 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development within the Information Society Technologies priority.

http://www.fidis.net/

2. "A survey on biometric cryptosystems and cancelable biometrics" by Christian Rathgeb^* and Andreas Uhl

http://www.jis.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/3

3. Cavoukian, A. (1999). "Consumer Biometric Applications: A Discussion Paper." from

http://www.ipc.on.ca

4. AK Jain, PJ Flynn, AA Ross, Handbook of Biometrics (Springer, 2008)

5. C Rathgeb, A Uhl, Two-factor authentication or how to potentially counterfeit experimental results in biometric systems. Proc of the Int Conf on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR'10), Part II 6112, 296–305 LNCS 2010 

6. N Lalithamani, KP Soman, Towards generating irrevocable key for cryptography from cancelable fingerprints. Int Conf on Computer Science and Information Technology, 563–568 (2009)

Video Source  1. Youtube

Networks usually employ many copies of the same or similar software, with a copy on each of several (or all) machines in the network. This similarity, combined with connectivity, means that any fault in one copy of a program can create vulnerabilities spread across many machines. Mass market software often has flaws, and each flaw can be studied and exploited by an attacker. In large networks, a huge number of potential attackers can probe the software extensively; the result is that a network often includes many identified faults and software patches to counter them.

In a sense, security in networks is the combination and culmination of everything we know about security. A network's security depends on all the cryptographic tools at our disposal, good program development processes, operating system controls, trust and evaluation and assurance methods, and inference and aggregation controls.

Many of the controls useful for stand-alone systems are also useful in networks. But three controls are specific to networks: firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and secure e-mail. These controls have evolved from many years of research, both in security and in other computer science realms. They emphasize why we should know not only the history of security but also the relevance of other computing research. For example, firewalls are just an updated form of reference monitor. Similarly, intrusion detection profits from more fundamental research into pattern-matching and expert systems. And secure e-mail is really a carefully designed application of cryptography. You might think that controls such as these are the result of strokes of genius. But in fact, they reflect the long-term nature of knowledge and engineering practice; new ways to provide security build on a growing base of understanding and experience.

1. Ad hoc

adjective & adverb

created or done for a particular purpose as necessary.

2. Prudent

adjective

acting with or showing care and thought for the future.

3. Embody

verb

be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling).

4. subtle

adjective

(especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe.

5. cipher

noun

a secret or disguised way of writing; a code.

6. spoof

informal verb gerund or present participle: spoofing

imitate (something) while exaggerating its characteristic features for comic effect.

7. peril

noun

serious and immediate danger.

Have a look of the topic Security Systems from the perspective of us three. We are glad you visited.

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1. Product recommendations

2. Criminal surveillance

3. Extending parental control.

The list is endless..

New technologies will make it possible to extract far more information from the biometrics we are already collecting. Some of them are 1.Product recommendations 2. Criminal surveillance 3. Extending parental control.

It was only through this project assignment that I came to realize that Biometrics type security is not just a part of security solution, it is a part of problem also. A major concern is if the servers storing biometric information is hacked.

We have to be specially careful of the use of non intrusive type biometrics security. As useful as it is, it shouldn't go to the extend of violating a persons right of maintaining anonymity.

2. http://netsecurity.about.com/

3.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WHynHcXm7c&list=PLFJw87eUj3AM70FMBfVpK060ES_ZFrrNF

4.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozgIE5IGJJ8

5. Wikipedia

6. http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/solutions/small_business/resource_center/articles/secure_my_business/what_is_network_security/index.html?referring_site=smartnavRD

7.http://www.interhack.net/pubs/network-security/

2.Is using wifi secure regarding the protection of our information?

3.What happens if a network

is not secured?

4.How wide is the range  of network security?

5.Does it make a sence to invest in the field of network security?

6.Do you have any previous knowledge of this topic?

These are for those interested in network security and enthusiast to find its working

2.“global early warning system for computer viruses”- Belgium has advocated a early warning center, notifying system administrators of vulnerabilities and threats as they become apparent.

3.packet tracing-  the identification of attackers would be to change the structure of the Internet by altering the protocols used in packet switching or make changes to the routing system.

4.“Legal globalism could refer to the spread of legal practices and institutions to a variety of issues, including world trade and the criminalization of war crimes by heads of State.

5.protocol- the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions.

2)why is it needed?

3)where can we use it?

4)how important is it?

5)when is it to be used?

gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer.

2)gray system

system with partly known and partly unknown information.

3.dark box

 is the combination of automatic control and operational research.

4.harvesting

data generated  in the operation of a model.

5.Security System Assessmentthe study of assessment systems and approaches to security.

2)google

3)https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=19&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CIQBEBYwEmoVChMIvvzMnfuwyAIVlE2OCh2A_g2b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coursera.org%2Flearn%2Fcyber-security-domain&usg=AFQjCNHK0pQ0GiuBGDFz-8EHD43KnMwUXg&bvm=bv.104615367,d.c2E

4)youtube

5)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA8c6NDaao4

6)wikipedia

Computer security is a vast topic that is becoming more important because the world is becoming highly interconnected, with networks being used to carry out critical transactions. The environment in which machines must survive has changed radically since the popularization of the Internet. Deciding to connect a local area network (LAN) to the Internet is a security-critical decision. The root of most security problems is software that fails in unexpected ways. Although software security as a field has much maturing to do, it has much to offer to those practitioners interested in striking at the heart of security problems. The goal of this book is to familiarize you with the current best practices for keeping security flaws out of your software.

Good software security practices can help ensure that software behaves properly. Safety-critical and high-assurance system designers have always taken great pains to analyze and to track software behavior. Security-critical system designers must follow suit. We can avoid the Band-Aid-like penetrate-and-patch approach to security only by considering security as a crucial system property. This requires integrating software security into your entire software engineering process—a topic that we take up in the next chapter.