Core Security Patterns: Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE™, Web Services, and Identity Management

Chapter 15. Secure Personal Identification Strategies Using Smart Cards and Biometrics

Topics in This Chapter

• Physical and Logical Access Control

• Enabling Technologies

• Smart Card-Based Identification and Authentication

• Biometric Identification and Authentication

• Multi-factor Authentication Using Smart Cards and Biometrics

• Best Practices and Pitfalls

Secure personal identification enhances the confidence, accuracy, and reliability of verifying a human identity and its eligibility for physical or logical access to security-sensitive resources and restricted areas. Secure personal identification and verification technologies enable a high degree of access protection to restricted locations, network infrastructures, IDs, banking, financial transactions, ...