Techniques to pre-authenticate a user identity for an electronic account

A computer-implemented method executed on a processing circuit comprising:

• monitoring browser activity of a browser application in a browser session and identify authentication events in the browser activity, the identified authentication events corresponding a third-party digital property on a list of white-listed properties, wherein the list includes one or more third-party digital properties, and the third-party digital property is automatically added to the list based on a successful completion of a previous authentication procedure;
• communicating to an external system information associated with the identified authentication events, the external system comprising a first-party digital property;
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• within a pre-defined time limit and in the browser session, pre-authenticating an identity for an electronic account with the first-party digital property based upon the information associated with the identified authentication events.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

• monitor browser activity during a web browsing session and identify authentication events in the browser activity;
• communicate to an external server information associated with the identified authentication events, the external server comprising at least one digital property and the identified authentication events corresponding to a white-listed digital property, wherein the list including the white-listed digital property is maintained by a web browser extension, and wherein the white-listed property was previously automatically added to the list based on a successful completion of a previous authentication procedure;
• and
• within the browsing session as the monitored browser activity and a time limit, pre-authenticate an identity for an electronic account to a digital property based upon the information associated with the identified authentication events.