Cyber Authentication
Abstract
(U) Current practice for the authentication of military personnel to information systems and facility access uses one or more factors; something you know – passwords, something you have – access cards, and/or something you are – biometrics. Today, biometrics, a method to uniquely authenticate an individual based on one or more physical or behavior traits, relies on being able to access the individuals body (fingerprint, retina scan, face recognition, DNA) and human behavior (voice, typing rhythm) and are preferred means to identify persons. The intent of the Cyber Authentication program is to reduce the authentication burden as well as strengthening the overall network security posture of the Global Information Grid by implementing autonomous 3-factor authentication. The Cyber Authentication program will accomplish this by revolutionary non-intrusive biometric identification tied to human physiology providing autonomous network defense through consistent and non-repudiated authentication. The Cyber Authentication system will securely identify unique individuals when the individual is within proximity of a computing device. A potential transition path of this program is a commercial capability to remotely identify individuals to their commercial systems without needing to interact with today’s burdensome biometric systems or remembering logon and passwords combinations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 4a97e2dc4ce03932aae8e5c61203fb8b