Accurate Continuous and Non-intrusive User Authentication with Multivariate Keystroke Streaming

Abdullah Alshehri, Frans Coenen, Danushka Bollegala

2017

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate a novel mechanism for continuous authentication of computer users using keystroke dynamics. The mechanism models keystroke timing features, Flight time (the time between consecutive keys) and Hold time (the duration of a key press), as a multivariate time series which serves to dynamically capture typing patterns in real/continuous time. The proposed method differs from previous approaches for continuous authentication using keystroke dynamics, founded on feature vector representations, which limited real-time analysis due to the computationally expensive processing of the vectors, and which also yielded poor authentication accuracy. The proposed mechanism is compared to a feature vector based approach, taken from the literature, over two datasets. The results indicate superior performance of the proposed multivariate time series mechanisms for continuous authentication using keystroke dynamics.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alshehri A., Coenen F. and Bollegala D. (2017). Accurate Continuous and Non-intrusive User Authentication with Multivariate Keystroke Streaming.In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, ISBN 978-989-758-271-4, pages 61-70. DOI: 10.5220/0006497200610070

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir17,
author={Abdullah Alshehri and Frans Coenen and Danushka Bollegala},
title={Accurate Continuous and Non-intrusive User Authentication with Multivariate Keystroke Streaming},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR,},
year={2017},
pages={61-70},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006497200610070},
isbn={978-989-758-271-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR,
TI - Accurate Continuous and Non-intrusive User Authentication with Multivariate Keystroke Streaming
SN - 978-989-758-271-4
AU - Alshehri A.
AU - Coenen F.
AU - Bollegala D.
PY - 2017
SP - 61
EP - 70
DO - 10.5220/0006497200610070