ID R&D Awarded Patent for Continuous Biometric Authentication

In the patent titled ‘System and method for multi-modal continuous biometric authentication for messenger and virtual assistants,’ the method described uses multiple biometrics in the background during chatbot communications to enhance security without complicating the user experience.

Continuous authentication works by assessing user behaviour patterns on an ongoing basis, as opposed to traditional authentication which evaluates the subject at a particular time using a specific test.

In continuous authentication for corporate network access, for instance, scores are continuously assessed based on factors like device posture and location, which help indicate when suspicious activity or attempts at unauthorised access are taking place. If the authentication score doesn’t show a sufficient confidence level, the system requests another type of authentication. You can set different confidence scores according to the type of action or resource involved.