Hands-on Project 8-1

Cognitive biometrics is authentication based on the perception, thought process, and understanding of the user.

This is considered to be much easier for the user to remember because it is based on the user's life experiences. This also makes it very difficult for an attacker to imitate.

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Homepage of Passfaces Demostration
















Click on the highlighted button to continue
















Starting screen of the demo, click 'OK' to continue


























Click 'OK'


























Click 'NEXT' to enroll now


























Memorize the passfaces given


























Click on the given passface


























Click 'DONE' to complete enrollment


























Successful Login


























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Reflection

I think cognitive biometrics is effective, because the thinking process or memories of one person is something that could not be easily imitate by anyone even your closed ones. This is due to the fact that everyone has their own set of thinking and this will result in different perception and different point of view.

But I think that cognitive biometrics is only effective on people who have good memory and only if the account is being used everyday. If not, when the person try to login after a few years, he/she might already have forgotten about the events/faces that he/she set as password to login. Then the user will have to go through alot of channel just to get that account back.

Hence in some way cognitive biometrics is effective as it is relatively secure, but it will not be convenient for people who have bad memories.