Using Personalised Authentication Flows to Address Issues with Traditional Authentication Methods

Jack Holden, Deniz Cetinkaya

2024

Abstract

Nowadays, a huge proportion of people’s data and files are stored online behind a password. While better and more secure methods exist, traditional password-based authentication remains the most predominant. With the current computing processing power trends and the advances in emerging technologies, the need for migration to improved authentication frameworks is becoming more essential. This paper explores the limitations of password-based authentication and how we could begin a gradual migration by using model-driven approaches, reducing password’s significance in authentication and encouraging the adoption of newer and more secure methods whilst still ensuring a low access barrier. This paper proposes a new model-based authentication approach returning choice back to the user. The users would be given the ability to choose their own authentication flow, helping bridge the digital divide ensuring people from all technical proficiencies, demographics, and socio-economic classes utilise more secure authentication flows without impacting usability or accessibility. This would be achieved through a modular technological solution allowing developers to add more secure methods of authentication as they come about. The modularity in combination with user choice will ultimately play a huge role in improving uptake and migration to newer authentication methods helping mitigate future risks.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Holden J. and Cetinkaya D. (2024). Using Personalised Authentication Flows to Address Issues with Traditional Authentication Methods. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering - Volume 1: MODELSWARD; ISBN 978-989-758-682-8, SciTePress, pages 255-263. DOI: 10.5220/0012435600003645

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward24,
author={Jack Holden and Deniz Cetinkaya},
title={Using Personalised Authentication Flows to Address Issues with Traditional Authentication Methods},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering - Volume 1: MODELSWARD},
year={2024},
pages={255-263},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012435600003645},
isbn={978-989-758-682-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering - Volume 1: MODELSWARD
TI - Using Personalised Authentication Flows to Address Issues with Traditional Authentication Methods
SN - 978-989-758-682-8
AU - Holden J.
AU - Cetinkaya D.
PY - 2024
SP - 255
EP - 263
DO - 10.5220/0012435600003645
PB - SciTePress