Nowadays, people own and carry an increasing number of mobile devices, such as smartphones and smartwatches. Since these devices store and provide access to sensitive information, authentication is required to prevent unauthorized access. Widely used mechanisms like PIN and password, however, don’t scale well with the growing number of devices and interactions. We present the preliminary design of CORMORANT, an extensible, risk-aware, multi-modal, crossdevice authentication framework that enables transparent continuous authentication using different biometrics across multiple trusted devices.

@inproceedings{Hintze_15_CORMORANT:TowardsContinuous,
  author = {Hintze, Daniel and Findling, Rainhard Dieter and Muaaz, Muhammad and Koch, Eckhard and Mayrhofer, Ren\'e},
  title = { {CORMORANT}: Towards Continuous Risk-Aware Multi-Modal
  		  Cross-Device Authentication},
  booktitle = {Proc.\ 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on
  		  Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication
  		  (UbiComp 2015)},
  year = {2015},
  pages = {169--172},
  address = {Osaka, Japan},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {ACM},
  doi = {10.1145/2800835.2800906},
  howpublished = {Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference
  		  on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication
  		  (UbiComp 2015), Osaka, Japan}
}