Systems and methods for cloud-centric biometric step-up and authentication
AssigneeZscaler, Inc.
InventorYaroslav Rosomakho
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Abstract
Systems and methods for cloud-centric biometric step-up and authentication include monitoring traffic from one or more endpoints via a cloud service; determining a requirement for authentication of a user associated with the traffic based on the monitoring; causing a computing device associated with the user and the traffic to capture a photograph of the user; and processing the photograph to confirm an identity of the user. In various embodiments, the capturing of the photograph is performed by a computing device associated with the user, wherein the processing of the photograph is performed by the cloud service for identification of the user.
Claims20
A method comprising steps of:
- monitoring traffic from one or more endpoints via a cloud service;
- determining a requirement for authentication of a user associated with the traffic based on the monitoring;
- causing a computing device associated with the user and the traffic to capture a photograph of the user;
- performing a validation check of the photograph by confirming the photograph is a live image captured by an actual camera of the computing device and not modified by software filters, prior to processing;
- and
- processing the photograph to confirm an identity of the user by matching the photograph against prerecorded encrypted templates stored by the cloud service, wherein the matching is performed without reconstructing the photograph.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform steps of:
- monitoring traffic from one or more endpoints via a cloud service;
- determining a requirement for authentication of a user associated with the traffic based on the monitoring;
- causing a computing device associated with the user and the traffic to capture a photograph of the user;
- performing a validation check of the photograph by confirming the photograph is a live image captured by an actual camera of the computing device and not modified by software filters, prior to processing;
- and
- processing the photograph to confirm an identity of the user by matching the photograph against prerecorded encrypted templates stored by the cloud service, wherein the matching is performed without reconstructing the photograph.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.