Computer Science and Management Studies Research Article / Survey Paper / Case Study Available online at: www.ijarcsms.com Next Generation Secure Computing: Biometric in Secure E-transaction

To establish identity of an individual is becoming critical in our heavy interconnected society. The need for reliable user authentication techniques has increased heightened concerns about security and rapid developments in networking, communication, and mobility. Biometrics, described as the science of recognizing an individual or the person based on his or her physical or behavioral traits. Biometric technologies are crucial components of secure personal identification and verification systems and today beginning to gain acceptance as a legal step for determining an individual’s identity. Biometric systems have now been deployed in various commercial, civilian and forensic applications sectors as a means of establishing identity helping to protect information and automate transaction in information technology. In this chapter, an overview of biometrics and some issues are addressed for making biometric technology an effective tool for providing information security which includes examining applications where biometrics serves as a focal point to solve issues pertaining to development, testing, evaluation and application of biometric based personal identification and verification technology. Information security, enumerating the fundamental challenges encountered by biometric systems in real world applications and solutions to address the scalability and security in large scale authentication system are the issues in today’s ever concerned world.