Need for Detection of Liveness of Biometric Traits and Implementation in Cloud Environment

Abstract

Biometric recognition has become integral to almost all current electronic devices and applications that need authentication and verification. Different methods for biometric authentication, such as fingerprint, face detection, iris detection, etc., have been developed based on biometric characteristics and are being preferred to be used to ensure authentication as the same is considered to be more secure and convenient as compared to passwords, pins and patterns. In this paper, we surveyed and proposed that the increased use of biometric traits for authentication has also invited frequent spoofing attacks that need to be addressed. The same can be done with implementing liveness detection using multiple biometric traits. Secondly, we proposed that offloading biometric authentication to a cloud environment using BaaS protocol is essential to minimize the deployment and maintenance costs and enhance security.