Identity assurance using posture profiles

A system, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processing device, coupled to the memory, operative to implement the following steps:
• obtaining a posture profile of a user indicating a behavior of the user while one or more of sitting in a seat and standing on a mat;
• performing the following steps, using at least one processing device, in response to a request of the user to obtain access to a protected resource:
• receiving identity assurance information comprising one or more of:
• (i) configuration information about a configuration of one or more of the seat and the mat at a time of the request of the user, and (ii) user information about the user one or more of sitting in the seat and standing on the mat at the time of the request of the user;
• determining if the identity assurance information satisfies a predefined identity assurance criteria;
• and
• providing an identity assurance result.

A computer program product, comprising a tangible machine-readable storage medium having encoded therein executable code of one or more software programs, wherein the one or more software programs when executed by at least one processing device perform the following steps:

• obtaining a posture profile of a user indicating a behavior of the user while one or more of sitting in a seat and standing on a mat;
• performing the following steps, using at least one processing device, in response to a request of the user to obtain access to a protected resource:
• receiving identity assurance information comprising one or more of:
• (i) configuration information about a configuration of one or more of the seat and the mat at a time of the request of the user, and (ii) user information about the user one or more of sitting in the seat and standing on the mat at the time of the request of the user;
• determining if the identity assurance information satisfies a predefined identity assurance criteria;
• and
• providing an identity assurance result.