Finger Print Authentication For Improved Cloud Security

This paper explains about strengthening the security issues when a cloud user - an individual, an enterprise or any other entity ports all of its data to a cloud vendor so as to reduce the investment cost and to ensure secured data communication to and fro between the cloud user and the cloud vendor. The process of combining traditional user-id and password mechanism along with bio metric image processing technique-finger print recognition is thoroughly explored for improving security in public cloud infrastructure. The possibility of introducing a new cloud service as "Bio-metrics as a Service" is also explored.