RSA: An Unusual Approach to User Authentication: Behavorial Biometrics (Video)

In the North of Sweden, in Lappland, there is a university spinoff company named BehavioSec that decides you are you (or that a person using your computer is not you) by the way you type. Not the speed, but rhythm and style quirks, are what they detect and use for authentication. BehavioSec CEO/CTO Neil Costigan obviously knows far more about this than we do, which is why Tim Lord met with him at the 2013 RSA Conference and had him tell us exactly how BehavioSec's system works. As usual, we've provided both a video and a transcript (There's a small "Show/Hide Transcript" link immediately below the video) so you can either watch or read, whichever you prefer.

Comments

Re:Assuming you will always type the same way.

[Anonymous Coward]

On the plus side, however, this will lock you out if you try to write a drunken facebook wall post to one of your exes...

New authentication options

[sl4shd0rk]

1) SHA1 password
2) Enterprise LDAPS
3) Tourrets

Re:Assuming you will always type the same way.

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Alternatively, if you create your log-in profile while drunk, you'll have to use your computer in that state forever!

[Detects one-handed lingerie browsing]

[GodfatherofSoul]

My Laptop: "Yep, that's him..."