Investigation of the Impact of Damaged Smartphone Sensors' Readings on the Quality of Behavioral Biometric Models

Sensors (Basel). 2022 Dec 7;22(24):9580. doi: 10.3390/s22249580.

Abstract

Cybersecurity companies from around the world use state-of-the-art technology to provide the best protection against malicious software. Recent times have seen behavioral biometry becoming one of the most popular and widely used components in MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication). The effectiveness and lack of impact on UX (User Experience) is making its popularity rapidly increase among branches in the area of confidential data handling, such as banking, insurance companies, the government, or the military. Although behavioral biometric methods show a high degree of protection against fraudsters, they are susceptible to the quality of input data. The selected behavioral biometrics are strongly dependent on mobile phone IMU sensors. This paper investigates the harmful effects of gaps in data on the behavioral biometry model's accuracy in order to propose suitable countermeasures for this issue.

Keywords: MEMS; Multi-Factor Authentication; behavioral biometrics; machine learning.

MeSH terms

  • Biometric Identification* / methods
  • Biometry / methods
  • Cell Phone*
  • Computer Security
  • Smartphone
  • Software

Grants and funding

The article was carried out under the project no. POIR.01.01.01-00-0082/20 “Development and verification of new methods of user authentication based on behavioral biometrics and machine learning methods”, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under Measure 1.1 of the Operational Programme Smart Growth 2014-2020, and was partially supported by Statutory Research for Young Researchers funds and partially by Statutory Activity from the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland.