Keystroke dynamics Based Technique to Enhance the Security in Smart Devices

Abstract

Nowadays, smart devices have become a part of ourlives, hold our data, and are used for sensitive transactions likeinternet banking, mobile banking, etc. Therefore, it is crucial tosecure the data in these smart devices from theft or misplacement.The majority of the devices are secured with password/PINbaseduser authentication methods, which are already proveda less secure or easily guessable user authentication method.An alternative technique for securing smart devices is keystrokedynamics. Keystroke dynamics (KSD) is behavioral biometrics,which uses a natural typing pattern unique in every individualand difficult to fake or replicates that pattern. This paperproposes a user authentication model based on KSD as an additionalsecurity method for increasing the smart devices’ securitylevel. In order to analyze the proposed model, an android-basedapplication has been implemented for collecting data from fakeand genuine users. Six machine learning algorithms have beentested on the collected data set to study their suitability for usein the keystroke dynamics-based authentication model.