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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
May. 16, 2012
Nirav Mehta, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Nirav Mehta, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
An authentication technique involves receiving an authentication request which includes a set of authentication factors and performing, in response to the authentication request, an authentication operation based on a set of authentication factors. An authentication result of the authentication operation identifies a particular trust category among a set of trust categories. Each trust category of the set defines a unique set of user permissions. The technique further involves providing the authentication result for use by a web application. The particular trust category identified by the authentication result defines a particular set of user permissions to be imposed by the web application. For example, the trust categories may take the form of trust levels such as Low, Med, and High which control access to certain resources. Furthermore, the technique involves providing periodic and/or random authentication requests to the authentication server to detect hijacking of the user session after successful initial authentication.