Protecting and Mitigating Against Cyber Threats

21Beyond Passwords: Face Authentication as a Futuristic Solution for Web Security

Paras Yadav¹, Manya Bhardwaj¹, Akshita Bhamidimarri¹, Shruti Mishra^2*, Sandeep Kumar Satapathy², Janjhyam Venkata Naga Ramesh³ and Sachi Nandan Mohanty⁴

¹School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

²Centre for Advanced Data Science, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

³Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Guntur Dist., Andhra Pradesh, India

⁴School of Computer Science & Engineering (SCOPE), VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract

This abstract depicts a major problem we see these days, insufficient user authentication at today’s web server, where there is a greater concern for security breaches. The central part of this project is aimed at increasing the performance of the web server by accelerating the face recognition technology as it can demonstrate the probability of the user. Its strategy here is to avoid traditional authentication-based passwords a notoriously suboptimal approach in the context of a fast-paced security climate. As a result, these systems expose vulnerable users and are given significantly higher security levels. Furthermore, we hypothesize in this work that facial authentication can provide a means to mitigate these weaknesses. The use of such a single biometric attribute unique to a person makes it possible ...