A fog/edge server machine for authenticating a user in an edge computing model is disclosed using a data spectrum table and spectrum hash values to improve performance, efficiency, and/or security. The edge computing model may include, in some examples, a secure Internet of Things (IoT) and/or mobile-based authentication system. Illustrative embodiments of a spectrum table stored at fog/edge server, a spectrum data array and spectrum hash value generated and stored in memory at the fog/edge sever, and a large, data table stored at an application server are disclosed herein to show continuous/subsequent authentication of the user with attributes/values/inputs collected by one or more edge devices during post-login activities/interactions to re-authenticate/maintain the authentication.

State-of-the-art techniques hardly attempt to address controlled resource access problem in context of Basic Emergent Users (BEUs). Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for Proof of Work (POW) based protection of resources. The method includes using the POW for work done by BEUs in physical world and mapping it to digital world to generate crypto currency in terms of credit score, wherein an end user is eligible or authorized to use a resource of an entity to get a desired service if accumulated credit score is above a credit threshold. Gaining points to improve the credit score is challenging as it is based on percentage of compliance achieved by the BEU through actual work in accordance with a compliance protocol. Further, the method includes authenticating the authorized user based on a set of questions with increasing difficulty, derived based on a culture graph.

A communications server apparatus for managing authentication of a user based on one or more authentication events in a session is provided, to, in one or more data records, generate, for each authentication event, data indicative of a trust score corresponding to the authentication event; and generate, data indicative of a security score based on the trust scores corresponding to the one or more authentication events in the session, and, in response to receiving request data indicative of an authentication request associated with the user corresponding to a transaction in the session, the transaction having a value indicator, authenticate the user if the security score satisfies a condition for authentication corresponding to the transaction according to the value indicator, wherein security scores for satisfying the condition are variable according to value indicators of transactions.

Systems and methods are provided involving various medical monitoring and/or diagnostic systems. The monitoring and diagnostic systems may involve one or more connected devices (e.g., a smart watch and/or other sensor device) and may continuously monitor an individual and analyze physiological and other data to determine a medical device, condition or event has occurred. The monitoring and diagnostic systems may be a guided self-examination system for determining a medical diagnosis, condition or event. The medical monitoring and diagnostic systems may even be specific to a family or individuals in a certain geographic location.

A method for providing a software service of a license management server is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a virtual machine interface from a cloud server; installing software of a service provider in the virtual machine interface; transmitting a license to the virtual machine interface; providing ID and password related authority to a user terminal; and providing a service of the software to the user terminal through the virtual machine interface when the user terminal accesses the software. Therefore, source code leakage due to static analysis can be fundamentally prevented.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for continuous user authentication during access of a digital service. In an exemplary aspect, a continuous authentication module may receive, at a computing device, initial authentication credentials of the user. The initial authentication credentials enable access to a service via the computing device. While the service is being accessed, the continuous authentication module may continuously monitor whether an unauthorized user has replaced the user in accessing the service by comparing usage attributes of the service with historic usage attributes associated with the user. In response to determining that the unauthorized user has replaced the user, the continuous authentication module may cease the access to the service via the computing device.

A continuous authentication system and related methods are provided. The system detects requests to perform user actions. A security value is associated with each user action. The system determines a subsequent session security level in response to an adjustment to a session security level by a security value of a requested user action. The requested user action is permitted and the session security level is adjusted based on the security value of the requested user action in response to a determination by the system that the subsequent session security level is greater than or equal to a threshold session security level. A user authentication challenge is caused (e.g., prompted) in response to a determination by the system that the subsequent session security level is less than the threshold session security level. The requested user action is permitted and the session security level is adjusted based on the security value of the requested user action in response to a successful user authentication challenge. The requested user action is rejected in response to an unsuccessful user authentication challenge.

A management system detects a change at the target device. The management system transmits a request message to authorization devices of the authorization users of the multi-user authorization pool to from the authorization users an indication of whether the detected change is approved. The management system receives a plurality of response messages from authorization devices of the multi-user authorization pool indicating whether the detected change is approved by the corresponding authorization user, and based on at least three of the plurality of response messages indicating a disapproval, that the detected change is disapproved. In response to the determination that the change is disapproved, an instruction message is sent to a target managed device to instruct the target managed device to rollback to an earlier state.

The present disclosure describes a computer-implemented method that includes: populating a metadata shell database with one or more hash values, wherein: each hash value corresponds to a verified installation of a database system, and the metadata shell database is maintained within a locked-down environment on an enterprise network; and monitoring metadata information of one or more database systems on the enterprise network based on periodically accessing metadata information of one or more database systems; and determining whether a database system on the enterprise network has been compromised based on a hash value of the metadata information of the database system and the one or more hash values from the metadata shell database.

Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for using programmatic means to verify the identity of a person. By scanning the person's documents and/or biometric data and comparing them to available government and private databases, the validity of those documents and identity of the person can be confirmed with a high confidence level. The process can assign a score to each item verified which is then computed into an overall confidence score which is available to other processes to rely on for approval of transactions. The identity is digitally combined with the credentials of the mobile phone to create a reusable identity token. Together with the confidence score, the identity token represents the verified biometric information of the person and is tied to the mobile phone.