Abstract
This paper investigates whether computer usage profiles comprised of process-, network-, mouse-, and keystroke-related events are unique and consistent over time in a naturalistic setting, discussing challenges and opportunities of using such profiles in applications of continuous authentication. We collected ecologically-valid computer usage profiles from 31 MS Windows 10 computer users over 8 weeks and submitted this data to comprehensive machine learning analysis involving a diverse set of online and offline classifiers. We found that: (i) profiles were mostly consistent over the 8-week data collection period, with most (83.9%) repeating computer usage habits on a daily basis; (ii) computer usage profiling has the potential to uniquely characterize computer users (with a maximum F-score of 99.90%); (iii) network-related events were the most relevant features to accurately recognize profiles (95.69% of the top features distinguishing users were network-related); and (iv) binary models were the most well-suited for profile recognition, with better results achieved in the online setting compared to the offline setting (maximum F-score of 99.90% vs. 95.50%).
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