Document Type

Video

Publication Date

Spring 2021

Abstract

Current smartphone security techniques offer less reliability. As an instance, personal identification numbers can be easily guessed or hacked, fingerprint scan requires hardware to operate, and face recognition can be affected by light, other people in the background, or different poses by the users. In addition, they are beneficial for one-time security, therefore commonly used at the time of login to verify users. However, what if there’s a change of user while accessing the smartphone, and the phone is accessed by an intruder after login. To deal with this issue, continuous authentication is applied which regularly and unnoticeably will address the challenges of verifying users via behavioral features, such as keystroke, hand, and orientation activities. The goal of this research project is to design and implement a behavior-based security method and detect intrusion using machine learning. Hand-movement, grasp, and orientation are three behavioral features that can be effectively used to continuously authenticate users. In-built inertial sensors including accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and orientation are used to unnoticeably represent sensitive micro-movements of hand and orientation pattern when a user accesses the smartphone screen. The researchers in this project investigated large datasets of different smartphone users with different interaction sessions. To detect the behavior of smartphone users, various supervised machine learning algorithms were applied on the dataset of smartphone users. Experimental results show that the presented approach is promising and can be implemented effectively for continuous authentication of smartphone users. Currently, the researchers are also working on malware detection and classification for android security using deep neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNN).

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