A biometric standard for information management and security

Today biometric systems are being widely developed and deployed to provide greater security to users and there is an increased awareness of the value of biometric systems. Biometric systems are bring developed and deployed, u sers are gaining experience and confidence in biometric systems and are beg inning to rear the benefits of this technology. Users and developers of thi s technology have also recognized the need for a biometric standard and wor k on a defining standard is currently underway. The standard establishes an appropriate biometric model and the associated security requirements that will allow different biometric solutions to co-exist in the marketplace. Th e standard views biometric systems within a global user community and it as sures that the security of any one biometric system will be unaffected by t he security of any other biometric system. This paper argues that integrity of authentication data is the primary security requirement and that confid entiality is secondary, even though the majority of authentication schemes today encrypt PINs and passwords.