Neuromorphic and Early Warning behavior-based authentication in common theft scenarios
Stephan M. Salas, Richard J. Patrick, Shane M. Roach, Nigel D. Stepp, Jose Cruz-Albrecht, Matthew E. Phillips, Vincent De Sapio, Tsai-Ching Lu, Vincent Sritapan · 2017
With increased rates of smartphone theft over the past decade, mobile authentication systems that operate on a continual basis are a necessity to meet increasing demands for user privacy, device usage, and authentication accuracy. Rather than forcing end users to continually self-authenticate via password pins or through other means on a time-interval basis [2-7], a system that continuously authenticates users provides a more frictionless relationship between a user's device and its physical security. Such a system, if effectively operating on a low-powered, unobtrusive, and secure basis, would make it viable for most consumer mobile devices. In this paper, we build upon our work in [1] to provide a novel authentication scheme that meets these requirements for a commonly adopted system. Our system, iSentinel, hopes to provide an unobtrusive, low-powered solution for detecting and responding to common theft scenarios by continuously authenticating mobile devices in use cases such as walking, texting, and driving.