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Biometrics

ISBN10: 0072230304 | ISBN13: 9780072230307

Biometrics
ISBN10: 0072230304
ISBN13: 9780072230307
By John Woodward, Nicholas Orlans and Peter Higgins

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Discover how to make biometrics -- the technology involving scanning and analyzing unique body characteristics and matching them against information stored in a database -- a part of your overall security plan with this hands-on guide. Includes deployment scenarios, cost analysis, privacy issues, and much more.

Part I: Authentication and Biometrics Overview

1: How Authentication Technologies Work

2: How Biometrics Work

Part II: Types of Biometrics

3: Fingerprint and Hand Geometry

4: Facial and Voice Recognition

5: Eye Biometrics: Iris and Retina Scanning

6: Signature Recognition and Keystroke Dynamics

7: Esoteric Biometrics

Part III: Issues Involving Biometrics

8: Biometric Liveness Testing

9: Biometrics in Large-Scale Systems

10: Biometric Standards

11: Biometric Testing and Evaluation

Part IV: Privacy, Policy, and Legal Concerns Raised by Biometrics

12: Biometrics and Privacy

13: Legal Considerations of Government Use of Biometrics

14: Case Study: Super Bowl Surveillance

15: The Law and Private-Sector Use of Biometrics

Part V: Review of Selected Biometrics Programs

16: Government and Military Programs

17: Searching the FBI’s Civil Files: Public Safety v. Civil Liberty

18: Private-Sector Programs

19: Biometrics and the Feasibility of a National ID Card

Part VI: Appendixes

A: Resources

B: Publicly Held Companies Offering Biometric Services

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