Biometrics For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) | 
| Authors: Peter Gregory, Michael A. Simon
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Sales Rank: 667768
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 292
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0470292881
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.4
EAN: 9780470292884
Publication Date: July 28, 2008
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Product Description
What is biometrics? Whether you’re just curious about how biometrics can benefit society or you need to learn how to integrate biometrics with an existing security system in your organization, Biometrics For Dummies can help. Here’s a friendly introduction to biometrics — the science of identifying humans based on unique physical characteristics. With the government’s use of biometrics — for example, biometric passport readers — and application of the technology for law enforcement, biometrics is growing more popular among security experts. Biometrics For Dummies explains biometric technology, explores biometrics policy and privacy issues with biometrics, and takes a look at where the science is heading. You’ll discover: - How pattern recognition and fingerprint recognition are used
- The many vulnerabilities of biometric systems and how to guard against them
- How various countries are handling the privacy issues and what can be done to protect citizens’ privacy
- How a scan of the palm, veins in the hand, and sonar imagery establish identity
- What it takes to fully authenticate a signature
- How gait, speech, linguistic analysis, and other types of biometric identification come into play
- The criteria for setting up an implementation plan
- How to use authentication, authorization, and access principles
Written by a pair of security experts, Biometrics For Dummies gives you the basics in an easy-to-understand format that doesn’t scrimp on substance. You’ll get up to speed and enjoy getting there!
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An informative and Easy Read September 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Target Audience:
Business and management types who are tasked with implementing a Biometrics solution when they know nothing about Biometrics. This is a good overview for non-technical users.
Summary:
This is an easy read that will get you oriented into the world of Biometrics. For a technical person, the book will almost be boring at times, but give it a chance and you may learn a little bit. If you already know a bit jump to Chapter 12 and explore "Ten Tools Used in Biometrics" From there you can jump back to Part Two (Chapter 4) and explore Biometric systems in more depth.
Chapter 3 discusses Biometrics, law and society. On page 56 I was reminded why Biometrics is less of a problem in the EU. They have tougher privacy laws. The very accurate observation here was that Europeans are much more secure with Biometrics because they are much more protected. I can personally vouch for that. Been there, seen that.
The only real disappointment of this book is that they didn't touch more on RFID and Biometrics. It may have been beyond the scope of the book. That wouldn't stop me from buying it though. The list price is $29.99 US, but I can see that Amazon has it for much less, which makes it more attractive.
I have not compared this against other books on the subject. There may be better out there. What you get out of this is based on criteria, but again if you just getting started and are non-technical, this an easy start.
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