Difference between revisions of "User Device"

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Full Title or Meme

A portable User help computer with capability acting as or including a User Authenticator.

Context

• Biometric Attributes are taken to be exclusively the measure of human characteristics like fingerprint, facial and behavior patterns.
• The human characteristics are another factor that can be a part of Multi-factor Authentication.
• So the human characteristics can be considered to be a Credential.
• The measurements of the characteristic are compared against a template of the characteristics using some Assurance level to produce a Validated claim.

Problems

• False positives
• False negatives
• Attacks against the sensor capabilities. Various movie and television plots have shown the attacks like taking someone's eyeball, or using a thin-film replica of a finger print to complete an Authentication which Authorizes access.

Solutions

• ISO 30107-3:2017 describes testing of Biometric Attribute presentations.

References