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Adaptive Authentication in the Age of Digital Apocalypse
Table of Contents Introduction ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 3 What is Adaptive Authentication?����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������4 Recent Condition and Challenges Faced in Authentication������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 5 Administering the online workforce���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 6 Handling Passwords �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 6 Compliance visibility and technological gaps����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 7 How does Adaptive Authentication Operate?�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������8 Location-based authentication ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������9 Risk-based authentication �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������9 Attribute-based authentication �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 10 Behavioral-based authentication ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 10 Device-based authentication�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 10 Business Benefits of Adaptive Authentication ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 11 Flexible user authentication ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 11 Easy implementation of MFA ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 11 How Does LoginRadius Help With Adaptive Authentication? ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 12 Conclusion ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 13
Introduction The principal purpose of Adaptive Authentication is to accustom the safety measures on various online accounts to manage and reduce the online risk factor of users. Adaptive Authentication is a flexible approach to setting up Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and two-factor authentication (2FA) that would allow diverse security constituents to be employed based on the user’s risk levels. This is why the adaptive form of authentication is far more advanced than conventional MFA. The advent of the global pandemic has rapidly increased the need for digital transformation, particularly in all their consumer-facing cloud-based interfaces. With the lack of physical interaction due to globally imposed lockdown, numerous organizations across the world were compelled to interact with their clients over an online platform. Additionally, the rapid technological advancement was another reason why business organizations focused more on digital transformation to remain competitive in the industry. However, this shift towards the cloud platform made business organizations vulnerable to various online fraud that remains to proliferate with online criminals leveraging various cyber-attack to obtain unlawful access to customer accounts. Hence, taking care of online security for a better customer experience always remains a challenge for modern organizations.
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What is Adaptive Authentication? Adaptive Authentication is customarily perceived as a flexible means of installing multi-factor authentication (MFA) and two-factor authentication (2FA) that allows organizations to provide distinct security factors after analyzing risk levels or different users. In simpler terms, this adaptive authentication offers a suitable level of authentication that is applied to the appropriate users.
Low risk: For the clients with low-risk of online
High risk: For the clients with a high risk of
data threats, the adaptive authentication
online data theft, the adaptive authentication
process is that when they log into their online
process will be required to utilize a biometric
account, they will be simply required to use a
scan to log into their online account. This
2FA (two-factor authentication) with an E-mail
enhances their online security by ensuring that
code or an SMS will be sent to their device.
the clients with high risk hold the appropriate level of flexible and adaptable security.
Adaptive Authentication is always considered a better and more secure mode of authentication than conventional multi-factor authentication. This method can easily reply to the device from which the login attempts are made. It can also identify the location of device login attempts along with IP address. This allows you to easily recognize when a login attempt is deemed high-risk and implement more powerful authentication methods.
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Recent Condition and Challenges Faced in Authentication With the growing technological advancements in modern times, securing user productivity while maintaining high-security measures has become a key challenge. Hence, organizations and enterprises in the present times always strive and put effort into ensuring that the security measures implemented to protect cloud data do not hamper the user experience. This is what has grown as a significant challenge for every contemporary enterprise. According to the stats presented in a recently conducted survey, more than 93 percent of business managers feel that streamlining and centralizing the customer authentication experience is one of the topmost issues to handle in their list of priorities in the year 2021. Mentioned below are a few challenges that enterprises face when granting access to various devices and maintaining protected authentication.
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Administering the online workforce One of the biggest challenges that enterprises face in the present time due to remote working is managing and administering their online workforce. The notion of adaptive authentication essentially came into action due to various loopholes in the conventional structure for authentication checks and reduced user productivity barriers. This inefficiency in consolidating additional risk factors such as network type, location, or operating system in authentication control makes the conventional structures more outdated. This is why many enterprises in the present times employ adaptive authentication methods so that the enterprises can overcome the risks associated with the traditional authentication methods to reduce all the potential threats to the user and online enterprise data.
Handling Passwords Another biggest challenge that is constantly faced by enterprises while operating remotely and managing their virtual workforce is to handle a lot of different passwords. According to recent stats, more than 90 percent of the data breach takes place due to weak or shared passwords. Since it is not humanly possible for a person to remember all the passwords, account lockout due to the wrong password and frequent password changes can take up a lot of time. Hence, to overcome this challenge, enterprises nowadays are shifting towards adaptive authentication that uses biometrics and eliminates the use of passwords so that there is no data breach due to shared or weak passwords.
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Compliance visibility and technological gaps The new concept of Bring Your Own Device has left the IT teams of many enterprises sweating as it is generally hard to keep track of different user devices and their activity on these devices. Moreover, it becomes challenging to manage authentication requests and assess how the user is handling confidential and sensitive enterprise data. This is why more enterprises are moving towards implementing adaptive authentication that is robust enough in classifying the related risk levels and bestowing the suitable levels of authentication in real-world situations to enhance the control and visibility of the IT team in an enterprise. In addition to this, a machine learning-based model could also be regarded as an efficient mechanism for implementing adaptive authentication to overcome the challenges of authentication implementation.
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How does Adaptive Authentication Operate? When you implement a risk-based adaptive authentication in your enterprise, you ascertain the baseline login specifications for a set number of users. You might hold more stringent specifications for users in certain vicinities or areas or users acting in roles that authorize them to access all the sensitive and confidential information. Mentioned below are some of the most advanced authentication scenarios that adaptive authentication works on.
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Location-based authentication This location-based adaptive authentication normally functions by building a profile for every user within an organization, which comprises data such as the user’s geographic location, the role assigned to them, registered devices on which they always work, and many other details. Every time a person or a user attempts to authenticate or access the system, the login request is assessed and allotted a risk score. Depending on this allotted risk score, the user or the person may be obligated to present supplementary credentials or, conversely, authorized to employ fewer login credentials. For instance, if a user or any person attempts to access enterprise applications through an unregistered device, they might be asked to register their device. If the user logs in the system from a geographic area other than their registered office address, they would have to respond to a security question. Based on the response submitted, the system then determines and works upon the request and matches it against the diverse risk scores. In any given situation, the user will either be authorized to proceed or be restricted from logging in. A user might even be asked to verify their identity.
Risk-based authentication These risk-based adaptive authentication solutions employ machine learning. The algorithms used in these mechanisms monitor and analyze user behavior and traits over time to create an authoritative profile of a particular user’s login habits. It might further track devices along with calculating the average user login times or normal operation locations.
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Attribute-based authentication This type of adaptive authentication usually works on user attributes and examines IP addresses and interface notoriety along with the potential threat data for those channels. This kind of adaptive authentication solution designates a risk score based on the user attributes and circumstances. This adaptive authentication solution then replies to the identified risk according to the customs set by the IT department of an enterprise. These rules may differ based on attributes such as the user role, risk score, device used, location, and many more.
Behavioral-based authentication A behavioral-based adaptive authentication uses artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and control the users’ real-time activity, identify irregularities in the user’s authentication patterns and behaviors, and identify all the potential threats in the authentication pathway (such as jeopardized networks).
Device-based authentication Device-based authentication is yet again the most high-level adaptive authentication that automatically adapts and employs the level of authentication required based on the type of device that a person uses. In device-based authentication, the user profile and device are scanned to identify the user’s level of risk and the device pose, and a risk score is allotted. If the risk score of the user is low, the system would require less authentication as compared to the users that pose a higher risk. In such cases, the system may add MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) to validate the users.
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Business Benefits of Adaptive Authentication Unlike the regular “one-size-fits-all strategy”, which probably can create an adverse impact on security, usability, productivity, and compliance, adaptive Authentication, on the other hand, bypasses making low-risk online activities unnecessarily exhausting or high-risk online activities too simple. In addition to this, the non-static adaptive authentication method takes the profile of the person who is asking for access into the system of the user to determine the risk level associated with that activity. When it comes to implementing Adaptive Authentication in enterprises, it is pretty obvious that distinct strategies had been created to accomplish diverse modifications of the Adaptive Authentication process. Mentioned below are some of the business benefits of Adaptive Authentication.
Flexible user authentication
Easy implementation of MFA
One of the most significant benefits of adaptive
Another significant benefit of implementing
authentication is that it analyzes the user attributes
adaptive authentication is that it enables the IT
and behavior to identify the data threats. Due to
team of an enterprise to implement Multi-Factor
this, the users posing a lower risk are not constantly
Authentication easily. Under this multi-factor
bothered with a lot of authentication processes.
authentication, the users will receive multiple
This flexibility in user authentication is what is liked the most by modern enterprises. Due to its high-level AI-based authentication, more and more enterprises
authentication options to ensure that all their cloud data remains protected from all malicious phishing or other attacks of cybercriminals.
employ this adaptive authentication to manage their cloud-based operations and authentications.
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How Does LoginRadius Help With Adaptive Authentication? LoginRadius is one of the leading names in cloud-based access management and is constantly striving to present enterprises with high-level authentication solutions to mitigate the risk of online data breach and retain their internal and user data protected from all the potential high-level cyber attacks. With the help of adaptive authentication solutions provided by LoginRadius, you can easily protect all your customer identities. Furthermore, this solution is based on an AI-based approach that examines user behavior to present an added layer of security against fraudulent login attempts. Determining which individual’s account should have access to what level of security is based on a risk assessment. LoginRadius’ Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication solution goes one step further, considering additional factors before granting access to an account. •
The device you are using: Smartphone or computer, work device, or personal device.
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The kind of network via which you’re accessing the application: Public or private.
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The time at which you are accessing the application: Workday time or night time.
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The place from where the application is being accessed: Your home, a café, the office.
LoginRadius assures the safety of your employees and customers and the privacy of sensitive and personally identifiable information. As a result, your stakeholders will develop a sense of trust and dependability.
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Conclusion It can be concluded that the implementation of Adaptive Authentication presents a more rational approach to managing and verifying cloud identity and access. By utilizing a blend of granular admin policies and behavioral analytics, this adaptive authentication offers a security approach that improves the user experience along with mitigating the risk of online data threats. It further makes user accounts with low risk easier to access while making highrisk user accounts more secure with a high level of authentication. Numerous organizations execute Adaptive Authentication as part of a comprehensive Identity and Access Management solution. This process usually consolidates Adaptive MultiFactor Authentication and Single Sign-On to go passwordless across all of their enterprise accounts. Get in touch with our team or book a demo. We’ll ensure you get a complete demonstration of the product before you proceed further.
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