Abstract
ABSTRACT 
 Biometrics are traits that allow individuals to be identified. Popular biometrics include fingerprints, faces, and irides. A common use of biometric systems is for authentication of users desiring access to a system or resource. However, the use of biometrics presents challenges and opportunities unique to other authentication methods, such as passwords and tokens. Biometric systems are also vulnerable to poor usability. Such systems must be engineered with wide user accessibility and acceptability in mind, but must still provide robust security as well. As lack of usability causes systems' failures, and enhancing systems' usability reduces such failures. This article first presents an overview of biometric systems employed today, including their usage and security merits. We then consider the specific role usability plays on both the development and long-term utility of biometric systems used for Cybersecurity.
Highlights
Biometrics technology is one of the current wide spread technology that is used in many ways
The idea of the methodology focuses on generating additional more focused measures from the traditional system-level evaluation metrics (The failure-to-acquire(FTA),the failure-toenroll (FTA), the false-accept (FAR), and the false-reject(FAT)), as The authors claimed that using the above metrics for evaluation is not enough to evaluate the usability of biometric performance, and they proved that the new generated metrics improved the biometric performance evaluation because the new metrics analyze the interaction between humans and biometric sensors in a more accurate way[11]
Another usability area is when the system administrator excepts some users from interacting with the biometrics authentication interface due to inability to interact with the interface
Summary
Biometrics technology is one of the current wide spread technology that is used in many ways. One primary reason for considering biometrics as authentication technology in security mechanisms is that such technology ties usability and security together to provide usable security for computing systems in a better way than other authentication methods [4,5,6,7,8, 13]. Hausawi; Role of Usability on using Biometrics for Cybersecurity, Transactions on Networks and Communications, Volume 7 No 4, August (2019); pp: 19-26 approach (like tokens) Both of the approaches share some disadvantages that negatively impact usability, security, or both simultaneously. As properly developed biometrics authentication methodology can improve both usability and security together to provide usable security for computing systems. It brings privacy issues out of the scope of this paper.
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