PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) — Multi-stage Risk-aware Adaptive Authentication and Access ControlExport this event to calendar

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 3:00 PM EDT

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Jiayi Chen, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Urs Hengartner

An adaptive authentication system can dynamically choose and adjust authentication mechanisms based on contextual information. With a strong context sensing ability brought by various sensors, the adaptive authentication system on mobile devices can automatically determine when to and how to authenticate a user balance the security and usability requirements. Existing studies mainly focus on context sensing and modelling, which triggers authentication adaptation. As for the adaptation process, most existing frameworks follow a simple adaption structure without the extensibility to handle different risks and progressive adaptation.

We propose a multi-stage risk-aware adaptive authentication and access control framework (MRAAC), which organizes different adaptation policies in several stages and uses contextual factors and authentication results for adaptation. Each stage represents a particular risk type and level that has specific adaptation goals and requirements. The multi-stage design allows our framework to handle different scenarios and support complex adaptation workflows. We implement two use cases, continuous authentication and device sharing, to show how to design a multi-stage adaptation solution using the MRAAC framework.

The experimental results on the HMOG dataset have shown that our multi-stage framework can enable early reactions to potential risks and lower the false rejection rate for continuous authentication mechanisms. We also conducted a small-scale device sharing user study to demonstrate how the MRAAC framework automatically detects sharing activities and adapts implicit authentication and access control to provide a secure sharing environment.


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200 University Avenue West

Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
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