Location-based, context-aware challenge-response authentication

A system comprising:

• a memory storage;
• and
• a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to:
• provide a challenge to a user, the challenge being based on a context corresponding to the user wherein the context corresponding to the user comprises current location of a device associated with the user within an environment comprising an interior of a building, and wherein the processing unit being operative to provide the challenge to the user further comprises the processing unit being operative to:
• determine that the user is associated with an access point located at an edge of the building, and
• provide, in response to determining that the user is associated with the access point closer to the edge of the building, the challenge that is more difficult than one that would have been provided if the device associated with the user was not determined to be associated with the access point closer to the edge of the building;
• receive, in response to providing the challenge, a response to the challenge from the user;
• determine, in response to receiving the response to the challenge, that the response is a correct answer to the challenge;
• and
• provide, in response to determining the response is the correct answer, a privilege to the user.

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a computing device, a location of a device associated with a user;
• receiving information corresponding to an environment comprising an interior of a building;
• and
• generating a challenge for the user, the challenge being based on a context corresponding to the user wherein the context corresponding to the user comprises a current location of the device associated with the user within the building, wherein generating the challenge to the user further comprises:
• determining that the user is associated with an access point located at an edge of the building, and
• generating, in response to determining that the user is associated with the access point closer to the edge of the building, the challenge that is more difficult than one that would have been provided if the device associated with the user was not determined to be associated with the access point closer to the edge of the environment.