Cross-Application Authentication Credential Reuse
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in efficiently authenticating users across multiple applications, particularly in scenarios where authentication credentials from one application are not directly applicable to another, leading to redundant user input and potential security vulnerabilities.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes successful authentication credentials from one application to validate and execute actions in another application, leveraging a continuum of authentication levels and application function permissions to streamline the authentication process while ensuring security through database comparisons and threshold validation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If authentication credentials are validated separately for each application, then security validation is thorough, but user authentication time and input redundancy increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication validation in a first application, stores the validation result, and reuses it for subsequent applications. This preliminary action eliminates redundant validation steps while maintaining security, as the authentication credential is validated once and the result is cached for future use across multiple applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication validation mechanism is designed to be universal across multiple applications. A single validation result from the first application serves multiple functions by being reused to validate credentials in second and subsequent applications, reducing repetitive validation operations while maintaining consistent security standards.
2Ease of operation
If authentication credentials are reused across applications, then user input is reduced, but security vulnerabilities may increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs a thorough security validation in advance during the first authentication operation. This preliminary security check ensures that the credential is validated against security policies before being cached for reuse, preventing security vulnerabilities from propagating across multiple applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where validation results from the first application are fed into subsequent validation processes. The cached validation result is reviewed and applied consistently across multiple applications, ensuring that security requirements are maintained while enabling credential reuse.
3Reliability
If separate validation processes are used for each application, then security is maintained, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges separate validation processes into a unified validation framework. Validation logic is consolidated and shared across multiple applications, where a single validation mechanism serves multiple applications. This reduces system complexity by eliminating redundant validation code while maintaining comprehensive security validation through the shared framework.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention includes a system for authenticating a second action based on a first action, wherein the system is configured to: receive a first request to execute a first action associated with a first application; determine that execution of the first action requires user authentication; request one or more authentication credentials from the user; receive a first authentication credential associated with the first action; validate the first authentication credential, thereby resulting in a successful validation of the received first authentication credential; in response to the successful validation, execute the first action; receive a second request to execute a second action associated with a second application; determine that execution of the second action requires user authentication; use the successful validation of the first authentication credential to validate a second authentication credential so that the second action may be executed.