Review article
BIOMETRICS IN SAFETY, PROTECTION AND SURVEILLANCE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Marija Boban
orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-8794
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Mirjana Perišić
; Visoka poslovna škola "Minerva", Dugopolje, Hrvatska
Abstract
Encouraging integration into emerging global society, economic, and cultural connections with the rest of the world, the overall development is creating new opportunities and new risks. On one side are deleted borders and increased mobility of people, the fl ow of goods, capital, and economic activity. The rapid development of digital information and communication technology, the ubiquity of the Internet, has become a part of we usually often are not aware of their impact. The growing
connectivity infrastructure, transport, energy, health and other areas with information technologies, increases the vulnerability of modern society. As much as technology has made the world safer and more advanced, it has opened the door to some new dimensions of crime. The complexity of creating a secure environment is extremely growing. Without a reliable system of security of persons and property are threatened in many everyday activities. A signifi cant factor in achieving security is to identify the person. Until now, the identity checks were made solely by means of secure passwords, card, pin codes and personal signatures, but that nowadays is becoming more restrictive and distrustful. Biometrics is an increasingly common form of authentication in diff erent spheres of life. Each biometric method has its advantages and disadvantages, and the choice depends on the
application. But despite the achievements of biometrics, it should be remembered that it is only one of the tools that can be used in the identifi cation system and that there is no perfect method that is
not subject liable to errors. It is especially important to emphasize the complex technical infrastructure that is in the background, which are analyzed and data storage in a database, checking data, further distribution of data, and that access to such systems requires a special set of security protocols. Questions of keeping the biometric data stored, security and distribution of data and control that will be entitled to use the information are questions that need to provide a common response of the Heads of State Union. Existing legislation is a good basis for the regulation for these issues.
Keywords
information systems; information security; security risk; risk prevention; legislation; biometrics; biometric systems
Hrčak ID:
142285
URI
Publication date:
23.7.2015.
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