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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2016
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventor:
Weng Sing Tang, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/107 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for dynamic adjustment of authentication mechanism is disclosed. The method includes: collecting location data of one or more agents relative to an agent attempting to authenticate to a data processing system; determining if the location data meets a threshold value; and responsive to the location data meeting the threshold value, relaxing an authentication scheme for the attempting agent to authenticate to the data processing system.