Behavioural Biometric Security

As e-Commerce continues and banking grows, shifting our shopping preference and money transferring from the physical to online marketplace, we leave behind digital traces of our personally identifiable details. For ex- ample, the merchant keeps record of your name and ad- dress; the payment processor stores your transaction details including account or card information, and every website you visit stores other information such as your device address and type. Cyber criminals keep robbing and use part of this information in fraud cases of identity, with tragic effects on the accountholders; but equally terrible to the card issuing bodies and payment processors, against whom financial liability most often falls. On the whole, we conclude that data is readily breached in this digital world and individual information like a credit card number, password, personal identification number and account details can be easily stolen and used by someone else. However, there is much data relating to a person’s behaviour biometrics that are nearly impossible to steal, such as the way they type on a keyboard, move the cursor, or whether they normally do so via a mouse, touchpad or trackball. This data, commonly called keystroke, mouse and touchscreen dynamics, can be used to create a unique profile for the