Towards Flexible Transparent Authentication System for Mobile Application Security

Abstract

Undoubtedly, Mobile Application Security (MAS) has made tremendous progress in implementing enhanced security protocols in the past decade. With the recent increase in the usage of mobile applications, concerns of privacy and security are increasing rapidly. Thus, the security measurement must be applied to satisfy security and privacy needs. On the one hand, the developer community works feverishly to develop mobile applications with innovative and usable layers and user-friendly for multigenerational customers. However, the security community, in particular, strives to make those layers secure. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to build a transparent authentication system in a mobile application. There are potentially many ways to implement an authentication mechanism such as the biometrics approach. It has features, which can be used to heightened security for the end-user. In these articles, we experimentally investigate the multigenerational customer base’s factors such as age, convenience, easiness, memorizing new passwords, and understanding the precept of frequently changing passwords to enhance security. Additionally, we propose a system that will solve the common problems users face when starting the password resetting process. At the same time, in the MAS sector, we orchestrate the applications for better security encryption for the stored biometrics to ensure it, which makes it even more challenging for an adversary to bypass the system and reset the password. We conclude our research with a comprehensive security solution for MAS that considers user friendliness and data safeguarding.