Patent ID: 8443200

Claim:
A computerized security system for electronic commerce or for an electronic transaction for verifying the authenticity of a user comprising: a server authentication program for enrollment of biometrics data for a new user in a website of a web-server, or of a computing device, said server authentication program being installed in a computerized web-server or in at least one server or computing device; a client software component adapted to be downloaded via a web browser or a client software component installed and running on a network component used by the client and installed at a computerized workstation of the user; said server authentication program installed in the computerized web-server or the at least one server or computing device being integrated with existing web-applications with a web-service provider or with applications for electronic transactions over a network and for receiving existing security parameters entered by the user at the computerized workstation or of a computing device of the user; computerized system components for determining if entered security parameters of the user have been stored and wherein, if so, for determining if a biometric scanner is available to the user and wherein, if not, the client software component is adapted to disconnect the computerized workstation of the user from the web-server or the at least one server, and the web-server or the at least one server or computing device is adapted to terminate enrollment of biometrics data for the user and to redirect a web-browser or a server browser or the client application used by the client to a web-page or an interface to guide the user; a computerized client component for activating the biometric scanner for identifying characteristics of a biometrics image or data in addition to already received security parameters or without it and for converting the biometrics image into digital data; a computerized client component for compressing and encrypting the digital data from said biometric scanner or a computerized client component for getting the digital data from the biometric scanner; a computerized client component for transmitting the compressed and encrypted or plain data to the web-server or the at least one server or computing device geographically separate or near; a computerized server component for comparing the data with the data that has been previously stored in a database; a computerized server component for sending status of comparison in the form of-status codes or plain text or a coded language understood by the program or a human, if comparison is successful, to the web-service or the at least one server or computing device; and a computerized server component for running finalization procedures, including clearing of buffers in the computerized workstation and the computerized web-server or the at least one server or computing device, when a successful comparison has been made or when a computerized workstation or the computerized web-server or the at least one server or computing device is disconnected.