93% of passwords used by the French do not meet the requirements of satisfactory security, this is the result of a study conducted by the antivirus publisher Avast. But before giving in to panic by replacing all our precious digital sesames at the risk of no longer remembering them, Anicet Mbida has a solution: behavioral analysis.
This technology is based on a simple observation, and just look at the computer screens in an open space to realize it: each user has a particular way of typing on a keyboard, moving the mouse, or even organize your windows. The idea is to use an artificial intelligence to collect all these data, bring them together, and make it a kind of user record. So, even if you hack your password, we can not do much. The system will realize that you are not the one who is in front of the machine since the behavior will be different. So the person will be disconnected once the system is certain to have a fraudulent user in front of him, which takes a few minutes.
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While one might expect this technology to come straight from the head of an engineer working for the Gafa, continuous authentication is a French technology developed in Mulhouse in the Haut-Rhin by Systancia, which already uses it to secure the workstations of its network administrators. Positions at risk since they are the ones who manage all the accesses of the company, and with this system, they have one will have an extra safeguard if their stolen password is stolen.
Ultimately, the goal is that continuous authentication can be used by everyone, because this technology has the advantage of not storing sensitive personal information such as fingerprints or photos. It is possible that in a while, you are your own password.