A SECURE ACCESS CONTROL USING BIOMETRIC SYSTEM

Abstract

The absence of secure database access in software development is one of the major issue in the society. Though there is increasing development in the database security systems, due to increasing number of specific attacker’s attacks the security system, it needs effective access control. Biometric technologies such as fingerprint, face and iris recognition have seen an increasing interest throughout the past decades. Such interest has been intensified with various large-scale initiatives from governments that seek to incorporate biometric technologies for the purposes of identification and verification. Far from being purely adhoc technological implementations, biometric devices are now seen as being of strategic value and consequently of strategic importance. With the perception of better efficiency and effectiveness, governments are beginning to embrace biometric technologies. Industry is also geared up to sell the products, and all over the world businesses are looking to incorporate biometrics for many different uses ranging from access-control to e-commerce and entertainment. Authentication and authorization as the part of the access control can ensure proper security in database systems. Biometric authentication provides a better way to control authenticated individual access. So we propose a model frame work for an access control using two level authentication scheme combines biometric with password provide high security remote authentication. Proposed biometric access control system implemented by facial recognition using eigenface algorithm. It has two phase that are enrollment phase and identification phase. Enrollment phase is the process of entering or registering their physiological information into biometric system. The biometric system used in this thesis is face recognition system, in which the user’s face is captured in camera and stored in the biometric database system derived. Identification phase is the process which determines the acception or rejection of the identified input of the user during the validation attempt. After successful identification, authenticated user allowed to access the data in the database. The proposed biometric system implemented using Eigenface with PCA algorithm.