Description
At present, identity theft is one of the most prevalent security threats.
Authentication is an inevitable process of verifying an individual's identity, who
wants to access the resources of a system. Though, machine authentication (machinemachine
authentication) is to protect the machine through several secure protocols
like Secure Socket Layer (SSL) but it cannot stop all the illegal accesses. In order,
user authentications come to rescue, and consequently we witness stringent policies to
avoid identity theft. Every framework has different authentication arrangements to
include different authentication techniques. The ultimate objective of authentication is
to increase the security level of authorized users and to eliminate the unauthorized
accesses, whatsoever authentication technique is employed.
The classification of authentication techniques is based on three zones:
Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA), Object Based Authentication (OBA), and
Characteristics Based Authentication (CBA). KBA includes user-id and password,
passphrase, challenge questions, zero knowledge-based protocols, challenge response
protocols etc. OBA is described by the physical belonging or utilization of any
hardware device used to verify the user for example smart cards, identity cards etc. It
is employed generally in banking, transport, parking and hotels (Levy & Ramim
2009). The trouble of misplacing the device and allowing unauthorized access can be
explained by embedding other factors into it. CBA or Biometrics is characterized by
unique property a user possesses, including fingerprint, audio or voice recognition,
signature recognition and face recognition. Kaur and Mustafa (2016) also discussed
various authentication mechanism and authentication methods. Their respective
strengths and weaknesses are briefly listed in Table 1a.
Despite security problems, password authentication has been having increasing
influence on the internet for the last five decades. Several researchers have worked for
strengthening password based authentication, primarily to enhance effectiveness.
However, a comprehensive literature review revealed a little attempt on improving the
efficiency aspect of password based authentication- including changing the time
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computations, increasing the security considerations etc. More work needs to be done
for determining the distinction with, which users act to specific authentication
techniques in reference with authentication practices, that may enable attacks on the
system. Consequently, the circumstances and prevailing context are pressing hard the
need for effective and efficient authentication means.
Author: Amanpreet Kaur Chandok
Publisher: Ary Publisher
Published: 12/21/2022
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d
ISBN13: 9786503431152
ISBN10: 6503431155
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Security | Network Security