Cisco Technology, Inc.

Joshua Terry

Shayne Miel

Nancy Cam-Winget

Richard Edward Harang

David William Matteson

Josh Matz

Brian Lindauer

Kevin Tyler Burchfield

Jake Ingman

Jen Bammel

Courtney Irwin

Patrick McMahon

Robert Small

Gillian Gacusan

The present technology provides for receiving communications at an authentication service, and the communication is indicative of a change in a security posture of an authenticated session between a user device and a secure service. The authentication service can then determine that the change in the security posture of the authenticated session impacts the trust level associated with the user device and causes the trust level to fall below the threshold. The authentication service can then send an enforcement signal to a security agent on a network device that provides remedial actions that a user can undertake to improve the security posture of the authenticated session.

Mid-session trust assessment

The present technology provides for altering an authentication technique in response to a detection of a possible attack to which the authentication technique is vulnerable. An authentication provider can receive an authentication request to authenticate to a first resource, where the authentication to the first resource is permitted using a particular authentication technique, includes contextual information associated with the first access device and information identifying the first resource. Based on the contextual information, the authentication provider can determine that the authentication request is subject to an ongoing attack, and determine, an alternative authentication technique that is less vulnerable to the ongoing attack than the particular authentication technique. The authentication provider can require the first user account to authenticate with the first resource using the alternative authentication technique that is less vulnerable to the ongoing attack than the particular authentication technique.

Risk-based factor selection

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Joshua Terry