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What is Biometric Information

Chapter 27
Handbook of Research on Grid Technologies and Utility Computing: Concepts for Managing Large-Scale Applications
Unique biological traits of human beings such as finger print and iris for unique identification of terrorists.
Published in Chapter:
Grid Computing: Combating Global Terrorism with the World Wide Grid
Gokop Goteng (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia), Ashutosh Tiwari (Cranfield University, UK), and Rajkumar Roy (Cranfield University, UK)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-184-1.ch027
Abstract
The emerging grid technology provides a secured platform for multidisciplinary experts in the security intelligence profession to collaborate and fight global terrorism. This chapter developed grid architecture and implementation strategy on how to connect the dots between security agents such as the CIA, FBI, police, custom officers and transport industry to share data and information on terrorists and their movements. The major grid components that featured in the architecture are the grid security portal, data grid, computational grid, semantic grid and collaboratory. The challenges of implementing this architecture are conflicting laws, cooperation among governments, and information on terrorist’s network and interoperability problem.
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