Threats models on biometri systems: A comparative study

Abstract

Several biometric threats systems models have been proposed to facilitate the design, implementation and validation techniques for securing these systems. Some models classify threats by type of attacks, others by specific attacks and other by using vulnerabilities and threat agent. Each model proposes a vision and a different approach to identify these threats. For example, to design security techniques for wireless biometric card, one should identify all threats facing this kind of device. In this paper, a comparative study and synthesis to help choose the most fitting model, depending on the security problems addressed, is given.

A Survey on Modality Characteristics, Performance Evaluation Metrics, and Security for Traditional and Wearable Biometric Systems

“…Penetration testing is conducted to discover hidden vulnerabilities and establish attack vectors that can then be mitigated [41]. Figure 5 shows the system model of TBS with different points of attacks, as identified by the different works in literature [21,66,153,166]. In this figure, only the authentication phase of the system is shown, since enrollment is subsumed in the authentication except for the template creation stage, the security-related significance of which was already described in Section 1.…”