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A Survey on Cyber Security Evolution and Threats: Biometric Authentication Solutions

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Cybersecurity threats are serious, costly and challenging because they are various, evolutive and easily spread. This chapter is dedicated to brief these issues, its evolution and the various solutions provided by the researchers; it also surveys the biometric solutions to one of the key issues of cybersecurity which is the intrusion, by providing robust authentication solutions basing on the unique physical and behavioural characteristics of the user.

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  1. Department of telecommunications, Faculty of Technology, University of Abou Bekr Belkaid, Tlemcen, Algeria

    Leila Benarous & Benamar Kadri

  2. Department of Computer Science and Digital Technologies, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Ahmed Bouridane

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Benarous, L., Kadri, B., Bouridane, A. (2017). A Survey on Cyber Security Evolution and Threats: Biometric Authentication Solutions. In: Jiang, R., Al-maadeed, S., Bouridane, A., Crookes, P.D., Beghdadi, A. (eds) Biometric Security and Privacy. Signal Processing for Security Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47301-7_15

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