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Biometrics and Strong Authentication

Identity Assurance in the Information Age

Komponist: Woodward, John D. Jr.

Beschreibung

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

Autor

John Woodward is a senior policy analyst at RAND where he works on national security, intelligence, and technology policy issues. He is particularly interested in biometrics and surveillance technologies. He has testified about these technologies before Congress and the congressionally created Commission on Online Child Protection. Prior to joining RAND full-time in 2000, Mr. Woodward served as an Operations Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency for twelve years. His overseas assignments included tours in East Asia and East Africa. Mr. Woodward received his Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He was a Thouron Scholar at the London School of Economics, University of London, where he received his M.S. in Economics. He received his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Roderick R. McKelvie, a U.S. District Court Judge in Wilmington, Delaware.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MCGRAW-HILL; RSA PRESS
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 187mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 940g
• ISBN-13: 9780072222272
• ISBN-10: 0072222271
• Artikelnr.: 10512192