Users continuous authentication in computers networks. / Autenticação contínua de usuários em redes de computadores.
AUTOR(ES)
Maria Ines Lopes Brosso
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2006
RESUMO
Context-aware Computing allows to obtain and use context informations acquired through devices in the environment, with the goal to provide services. This dynamics, allied to the computer networks evolution, has been provoking deep modifications in peoples social and behavior aspects, seeing that they have the necessity to live immersed in technology and integrated with the environment, with transparency and mobility, anywhere, anytime, so that the software applications adapt themselves to the persons behavior, based on the context information captured through the environment. One of the challenges of this human ? environment - technology ? ubiquity interaction is to provide security. As main innovation and contribution, this thesis presents an authentication mechanism of users which makes use of environmental context information, users behavior analysis, the face recognition technology, the behavior theories of Skinner and the Mathematical Confidence of the Theory of the Evidences of Dempster-Shafer, to compose an adaptative security policy and the Known User Continuous Authentication System (KUCAS) that establishes trust levels to authenticate the user by his behavior analysis in a specific domain of the computer networks, in a period of time. The dynamics of enclosed management in this system compares the current behavior with the users previous behaviors description and with the trust restrictions. In case of indications of changes in the users behavior, the 3D Technology Face Recognition is set in motion by sensors, which capture the image of the users face, validating it and storing it in the data bases of images. If there are uncertainties and divergences, mechanisms of security and signals of alert are set in motion. The KUCAS System has an infrastructure of one framework F-KUCAS, a Security Module S-KUCAS and an Algorithm of Authentication A-KUCAS.
ASSUNTO(S)
context-aware computing human behavior comportamento humano trust confiança processos de autenticação biometrics biometria redes de computadores (segurança) networks computers (security) computação ciente de contexto authentication process
