Description
With the rise of mobile technology, the personal lives and sensitive information of everyday citizens are carried about without a thought to the risks involved. Despite this high possibility of harm, many fail to use simple security to protect themselves because they feel the benefits of securing their devices do not outweigh the cost to usability. The main issue is that beyond initial authentication, sessions are maintained using optional timeout mechanisms where a session will end if a user is inactive for a period of time. This interruption-based form of continuous authentication requires constant user intervention leading to frustration, which discourages its use. No solution currently exists that provides an implementation beyond the insecure and low usability of simple timeout and re-authentication. This work identifies the flaws of current mobile authentication techniques and provides a new solution that is not limiting to the user, has a system for secure, active continuous authentication, and increases the usability and security over current methods.
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- Towards seamless and secure mobile authentication
Contributors
- Romo, James Tyler (Author)
- Ahn, Gail-Joon (Thesis advisor)
- Dasgupta, Partha (Committee member)
- Burleson, Winslow (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2014
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thesisPartial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2014
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bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 89-91)
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Field of study: Computer science
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by James Tyler Romo