id: "IA-05(17)" title: "Presentation Attack Detection for Biometric Authenticators" family: "IA" family_name: "Identification and Authentication" sort_id: "ia-05.17" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "system" parent: "IA-05" enhancement: True


Statement

Employ presentation attack detection mechanisms for biometric-based authentication.

Guidance

Biometric characteristics do not constitute secrets. Such characteristics can be obtained by online web accesses, taking a picture of someone with a camera phone to obtain facial images with or without their knowledge, lifting from objects that someone has touched (e.g., a latent fingerprint), or capturing a high-resolution image (e.g., an iris pattern). Presentation attack detection technologies including liveness detection, can mitigate the risk of these types of attacks by making it difficult to produce artifacts intended to defeat the biometric sensor.

Assessment Objective

presentation attack detection mechanisms are employed for biometric-based authentication.

Identification and authentication policy

procedures addressing identifier management

system security plan

system design documentation

mechanisms providing dynamic binding of identifiers and authenticators

system configuration settings and associated documentation

system audit records

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with identification and authentication management responsibilities

organizational personnel with information security responsibilities

system/network administrators

Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing account management capability

mechanisms supporting and/or implementing identification and authentication management capabilities for the system