Cloud multi-factor authentication is a critical security measure that helps strengthen cloud security from unauthorized access and data breaches. Multi-factor authentication verifies that authentic cloud users are only authorized to access cloud apps...
The unauthorized usage of various services and resources in cloud computing is something that must be protected against. Authentication and access control are the most significant concerns in cloud computing. Several researchers in this field suggest...
As more Internet of Things (IoT) devices are being used, more sensitive data and services are also being hosted by, or accessed via, IoT devices. This leads to a need for a stronger authentication solution for the IoT context, and a stronger authenti...
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a system for authenticating an individual’s identity using two or more pieces of data (known as factors). The reason for using more than two factors is to further strengthen security through the use of addit...
Conventional authentication methods, like simple text-based passwords, have shown vulnerabilities to different types of security attacks. Indeed, 61% of all breaches involve credentials, whether stolen via social engineering or hacked using brute for...
Securing online financial transactions has become a critical concern in an era where financial services are becoming more and more digital. The transition to digital platforms for conducting daily transactions exposed customers to possible risks from...
Crypto wallets store and protect the private keys needed to sign transactions for crypto currencies; they are secured by multi-factor authentication schemes. However, the loss of a wallet, or a dysfunctional factor of authentication, can be catastrop...
During the last few years, smart mobile devices have constituted an indispensable part of our lives, being a main element for many daily activities. However, it is well known that several security and privacy concerns still occur, especially taking i...
The multi-factor authentication (MFA) protocol requires users to provide a combination of a password, a smart card and biometric data as verification factors to gain access to the services they need. In a single-server MFA system, users accessing mul...
With the expansion of smartphone and financial technologies (FinTech), mobile money emerged to improve financial inclusion in many developing nations. The majority of the mobile money schemes used in these nations implement two-factor authentication...
Internet of Things (IoT) technology is evolving over the peak of smart infrastructure with the participation of IoT devices in a wide range of applications. Traditional IoT authentication methods are vulnerable to threats due to wireless data transmi...
Telemedicine diagnosis has become a more flexible and convenient way to receive diagnoses, which is of great significance in enhancing diagnosis, cutting costs, and serving remote users. However, telemedicine faces many security problems, such as the...
Remote data backup technology avoids the risk of data loss and tampering, and has higher security compared to local data backup solutions. However, the data transmission channel for remote data backup is not secure, and the backup server cannot be fu...
Continuous and emerging advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have enabled Internet-of-Things (IoT)-to-Cloud applications to be induced by data pipelines and Edge Intelligence-based architectures. Advanced vehicular networks grea...
Secure authentication in smart device ecosystems remains a critical challenge, particularly due to the irrevocability of compromised biometric templates in server-based systems. This paper presents a post-quantum secure multi-factor authentication pr...
Credit/debit cards are a ubiquitous form of payment at present. They offer a number of advantages over cash, including convenience, security, and fraud protection. In contrast, the inherent vulnerabilities of credit/debit cards and transaction method...
The development of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promotes the integration of the cross-platform systems in fog computing, which enable users to obtain access to multiple application located in different geographical locations. Fog users at...
There are many security challenges in IoT, especially related to the authentication of restricted devices in long-distance and low-throughput networks. Problems such as impersonation, privacy issues, and excessive battery usage are some of the existi...
Today, digitalization decisively penetrates all the sides of the modern society. One of the key enablers to maintain this process secure is authentication. It covers many different areas of a hyper-connected world, including online payments, communic...
Security and access control aspects are becoming more and more essential to consider during the design of various systems and the tremendous growth of digitization. One of the related key building blocks in this regard is, essentially, the authentica...
The overwhelming popularity of technology-based solutions and innovations to address day-to-day processes has significantly contributed to the emergence of smart cities. where millions of interconnected devices and sensors generate and share huge vol...
The growing need for secure and privacy-preserving identity management in industrial environments has exposed the limitations of traditional, centralized authentication systems. In this context, SIBERIA was developed as a modular solution that empowe...
Security protocols are the basis of modern network communication, proving that the security problem of protocols is one of the hot research topics today. The data in industrial IoT are usually transmitted through insecure channels, which brings certa...
Communication between connected objects in the Internet of Things (IoT) often requires secure and reliable authentication mechanisms to verify identities of entities and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data and resources. Unlike other domain...
Ensuring online safety and security is critical as personal data grow increasingly valuable, necessitating robust authentication to protect users from potential threats. The use of current authentication mechanisms often fails to balance user conveni...
Authentication mechanisms attract considerable research interest due to the protective role they offer, and when they fail, the system becomes vulnerable and immediately exposed to attacks. Blockchain technology was recently incorporated to enhance a...
In an era of tremendous development in information technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), security plays a key role in safety devices connected with the Internet. Authentication is vital in the security field, and to achieve a strong authentica...
The design and implementation of two-factor schemes designed for roaming mobile users for global mobility networks in smart cities requires attention to protect the scheme from various security attacks, such as the replay attack, impersonation attack...
In the proposed protocol, a trusted entity interacts with the terminal device of each user to verify the legitimacy of the public keys without having access to the private keys that are generated and kept totally secret by the user. The protocol intr...
There are continued advances in the internet and communication fields regarding the deployment of 5G-based applications. It is expected that by 2030, 6G applications will emerge as a continued evolution of the mobile network. Blockchain technology is...
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 (Mu...
The Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) security system follows the “never trust, always verify” principle. The process constantly verifies users and devices trying to access resources. This paper describes how Microsoft Azure uses ZTA to enfor...
With the explosion of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications in the internet of vehicles (IoV), it is still very important to ensure secure authentication and efficient key agreement because of the vulnerabilities in the existing protocols su...
Connected vehicles have emerged as the latest revolution in the automotive industry, utilizing the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, most IoT-connected cars mechanisms currently depend on available network services and need continuous...
Internet of Things (IoT) environments such as smart homes, smart factories, and smart buildings have become a part of our lives. The services of IoT environments are provided through wireless networks to legal users. However, the wireless network is...
Background: Information and communication technology development provides services to various fields. In particular, the development of mobile technology has made ubiquitous services possible. However, as technology advances, security is being emphas...
To provide secure communication, the authentication-and-key-agreement scheme plays a vital role in multi-server environments, Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), etc. This scheme enables users and servers to negotiate for a com...
Cybersecurity has become a critical concern for individuals, organizations, and governments, especially with the rise of sophisticated cyberattacks and remote work environments. Traditional security approaches are no longer sufficient, leading to the...
In the modern digital era, everyone is partially or fully integrated with cloud computing to access numerous cloud models, services, and applications. Multi-cloud is a blend of a well-known cloud model under a single umbrella to accomplish all the di...
The rise in internet-based services has raised risks of data exposure. The manipulation and exploitation of sensitive data significantly impact individuals’ resilience—the ability to protect and prepare against cyber incidents. Emerging t...
With the increasing number of users and the emergence of different types of network services, a multi-server architecture has emerged in recent years. In order to ensure the secure communication of Internet participants in an open network environment...
A significant percentage of security research that is conducted suffers from common issues that prevent wide-scale adoption. Common snags of such proposed methods tend to include (i) introduction of additional nodes within the communication architect...
Data authenticated aggregation is always a significant issue for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The marine sensors are deployed far away from the security monitoring. Secure data aggregation for marine WSNs has emerged and attracted the interest of...
With recent significant advancements in artificial intelligence, the necessity for more reliable recognition systems has rapidly increased to safeguard individual assets. The use of brain signals for authentication has gained substantial interest wit...
Passwords are the first line of defence against preventing unauthorised access to systems and potential leakage of sensitive data. However, the traditional reliance on username and password combinations is not enough protection and has prompted the i...
Modern user authentication systems increasingly need user and device-behavior-aware adaptive mechanisms to detect evolving threats beyond the traditional authentication framework of static credential verification. This paper proposes a hybrid multi-m...
The fifth generation (5G) mobile network delivers high peak data rates with ultra-low latency and massive network capacity. Wireless sensor network (WSN) in Internet of Thing (IoT) architecture is of prominent use in 5G-enabled applications. The elec...
In a smart city, there are different types of entities, such as nature persons, IoT devices, and service providers, which have different computational limitations and storage limitations. Unfortunately, all of the existing authentication and key exch...
This study investigates the integration of smart card readers into vehicle ignition systems as a multifaceted solution to enhance security, regulatory compliance, and road safety. By implementing real-time driver verification, encryption protocols (A...
Authentication protocol is a critical part of any application to manage the access control in many applications. A former research recently proposed a lightweight authentication scheme to transmit data in an IoT subsystem securely. Although the desig...
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