Biometric system is widely used to recognize the authorized person based on either behavioral characteristics or physical. But this can be spoofed using various traits. Spoofing attack is nothing but attacking or harming biometric recognition system using security features to use system without permission of authorized user. These biometric systems can be easily attacked by spoofs like peoples face images, masks and videos which are easily available from social media. In the proposed work, method is discuss to detect the spoofing attack. Spoofing methods like photo, mask or video image can be easily recognized by this method. This method depends on illumination and some other characteristics of face which are used to detect spoofed face. The goal of this work is to develop a efficient protection method against these types of attacks. By last, proposed work efficiently detects the live face using illumination characteristics in MATLAB tool.