ATAP, Google’s advanced research unit, showed a
new project at the company’s I/O developer
conference today that aims to replace mobile
passwords with a new system that looks at your
typing patterns and other signals as you go through
the day.
The idea here is to move the burden of PINs and
passwords from the user to the device, which
generates a continuous trust score as you go
through the day to ensure that you’re indeed the
person who is using it.
ATAP chief Regina Dugan today explained that the
team looked at the existing research on this
subject, but none of the academic institutions had
been able to create a system that was even as
secure as a four-digit PIN.
To improve this, Google partnered with numerous
universities and invited 25 experts from 16
institutions to Google to participate in an intensive
90-day research sprint. The team took data from
1,500 donors and got to the point where the new
system is now 10x more secure than fingerprint
systems.
If that’s true, then that’s a major achievement,
indeed, and could soon replace existing security
mechanisms. You’ll probably still want to use two-
factor authentication when you log in to your bank’s
mobile apps, though. All it would take to enable this
is a software update, so ATAP hopes that it will be
able to bring this system to millions of Android
phones in the future.
new project at the company’s I/O developer
conference today that aims to replace mobile
passwords with a new system that looks at your
typing patterns and other signals as you go through
the day.
The idea here is to move the burden of PINs and
passwords from the user to the device, which
generates a continuous trust score as you go
through the day to ensure that you’re indeed the
person who is using it.
ATAP chief Regina Dugan today explained that the
team looked at the existing research on this
subject, but none of the academic institutions had
been able to create a system that was even as
secure as a four-digit PIN.
To improve this, Google partnered with numerous
universities and invited 25 experts from 16
institutions to Google to participate in an intensive
90-day research sprint. The team took data from
1,500 donors and got to the point where the new
system is now 10x more secure than fingerprint
systems.
If that’s true, then that’s a major achievement,
indeed, and could soon replace existing security
mechanisms. You’ll probably still want to use two-
factor authentication when you log in to your bank’s
mobile apps, though. All it would take to enable this
is a software update, so ATAP hopes that it will be
able to bring this system to millions of Android
phones in the future.
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