Mcafee, Inc.

John R McDowell

Ranjit S Narjala

Siddaraya B Revashetti

Richard Reiner

Charles Slate

Vani Yalapalli

Gilad Gitlin

Sahar Mostafa

Neeraj Kaul

Pavan Kumar V Bharathapudi

Ramkumar Ram Chary Venkatachary

Techniques are disclosed for providing an authentication service that performs authentication of users on behalf of a relying party. The authentication service receives authentication requirements from the relying party and compares those requirements with authentication capabilities of the user and user equipment. If the authentication requirements are met, the authentication service may perform authentication using the corresponding authentication factors. If the available authentication factors are insufficient or the user fails authentication using the authentication factors used by the authentication service, the relying party may be notified that authentication failed. Upon successful authentication, the authentication service notifies the requiring party that the user has been authenticated.

Cumulative authentication for step-up increased authentication factors

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for providing conditional login promotion. An example system includes at least one processor and at least one memory element, wherein the system is configured for receiving an indication of a local operating system login by a user from a client device associated with the user; receiving one or more authentication factors associated with the user from the client device; and determining whether the local operating system login is to be promoted to a relying party entity based upon the one or more authentication factors associated with the user.

Conditional login promotion

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John R McDowell