F-RBA: A Federated Learning-based Framework for Risk-based Authentication

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Auteurs principaux: Fereidouni, Hamidreza, Hafid, Abdelhakim Senhaji, Makrakis, Dimitrios, Baseri, Yaser
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author Fereidouni, Hamidreza
Hafid, Abdelhakim Senhaji
Makrakis, Dimitrios
Baseri, Yaser
author_facet Fereidouni, Hamidreza
Hafid, Abdelhakim Senhaji
Makrakis, Dimitrios
Baseri, Yaser
contents The proliferation of Internet services has led to an increasing need to protect private data. User authentication serves as a crucial mechanism to ensure data security. Although robust authentication forms the cornerstone of remote service security, it can still leave users vulnerable to credential disclosure, device-theft attacks, session hijacking, and inadequate adaptive security measures. Risk-based Authentication (RBA) emerges as a potential solution, offering a multi-level authentication approach that enhances user experience without compromising security. In this paper, we propose a Federated Risk-based Authentication (F-RBA) framework that leverages Federated Learning to ensure privacy-centric training, keeping user data local while distributing learning across devices. Whereas traditional approaches rely on centralized storage, F-RBA introduces a distributed architecture where risk assessment occurs locally on users' devices. The framework's core innovation lies in its similarity-based feature engineering approach, which addresses the heterogeneous data challenges inherent in federated settings, a significant advancement for distributed authentication. By facilitating real-time risk evaluation across devices while maintaining unified user profiles, F-RBA achieves a balance between data protection, security, and scalability. Through its federated approach, F-RBA addresses the cold-start challenge in risk model creation, enabling swift adaptation to new users without compromising security. Empirical evaluation using a real-world multi-user dataset demonstrates the framework's effectiveness, achieving a superior true positive rate for detecting suspicious logins compared to conventional unsupervised anomaly detection models. This research introduces a new paradigm for privacy-focused RBA in distributed digital environments, facilitating advancements in federated security systems.
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spellingShingle F-RBA: A Federated Learning-based Framework for Risk-based Authentication
Fereidouni, Hamidreza
Hafid, Abdelhakim Senhaji
Makrakis, Dimitrios
Baseri, Yaser
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
The proliferation of Internet services has led to an increasing need to protect private data. User authentication serves as a crucial mechanism to ensure data security. Although robust authentication forms the cornerstone of remote service security, it can still leave users vulnerable to credential disclosure, device-theft attacks, session hijacking, and inadequate adaptive security measures. Risk-based Authentication (RBA) emerges as a potential solution, offering a multi-level authentication approach that enhances user experience without compromising security. In this paper, we propose a Federated Risk-based Authentication (F-RBA) framework that leverages Federated Learning to ensure privacy-centric training, keeping user data local while distributing learning across devices. Whereas traditional approaches rely on centralized storage, F-RBA introduces a distributed architecture where risk assessment occurs locally on users' devices. The framework's core innovation lies in its similarity-based feature engineering approach, which addresses the heterogeneous data challenges inherent in federated settings, a significant advancement for distributed authentication. By facilitating real-time risk evaluation across devices while maintaining unified user profiles, F-RBA achieves a balance between data protection, security, and scalability. Through its federated approach, F-RBA addresses the cold-start challenge in risk model creation, enabling swift adaptation to new users without compromising security. Empirical evaluation using a real-world multi-user dataset demonstrates the framework's effectiveness, achieving a superior true positive rate for detecting suspicious logins compared to conventional unsupervised anomaly detection models. This research introduces a new paradigm for privacy-focused RBA in distributed digital environments, facilitating advancements in federated security systems.
title F-RBA: A Federated Learning-based Framework for Risk-based Authentication
topic Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12324