Pre-deactivation Grace Period for Mobile Device Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices pose significant security challenges due to their small size, ease of loss, and additional functionalities, making sensitive information at risk, and existing security measures are inadequate in managing intermittent network connections and providing comprehensive protection.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a pre-deactivation grace period that delays the commencement of deactivation events by a predetermined time, allowing for reactivation requests and authentication processes, which enables partial or full functionality and encryption of data during this period.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If immediate deactivation is implemented upon detection, then security response time is improved, but device functionality and user access are lost prematurely
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication verification during the grace period before final deactivation. When a deactivation event is detected, the system initiates a grace period during which authentication is attempted in advance of the actual deactivation, allowing secure reactivation if authorized and preventing unauthorized access if authentication fails.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts device state between active, grace period, and deactivated states. The grace period acts as a transitional dynamic state that allows the system to respond flexibly to deactivation events based on authentication outcomes, rather than immediately transitioning to a permanently deactivated state.
2Ease of operation
If deactivation grace period is implemented, then user reactivation capability is improved, but security response time is delayed
Solution Approach 1:
Authentication is performed preliminarily during the grace period rather than after deactivation. This allows the system to verify user credentials and make authorization decisions before the deactivation takes full effect, ensuring both user convenience and security are addressed in advance.
Solution Approach 2:
The grace period serves as an intermediary transitional state between the active and deactivated states. During this intermediate period, the system mediates between the need for quick security response and the need for user reactivation capability, allowing authentication processes to occur without immediate deactivation consequences.
3Reliability
If authentication process is delayed until after deactivation, then security verification is improved, but device accessibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs authentication preliminarily during the grace period before final deactivation occurs. This preliminary verification maintains security rigor while improving accessibility, as users can authenticate and potentially reactivate the device before complete deactivation prevents access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a dynamic authentication timeline where verification can occur at multiple stages: preliminarily during the grace period and potentially again after deactivation. This dynamic approach allows the system to adapt security verification timing based on user needs and security requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for a pre-deactivation grace period on a processing device (e.g., mobile device). In operation, a deactivation request is detected for a deactivation event. Further, the commencement of the deactivation event is delayed for a predetermined time period, in response to the deactivation request. Additionally, the deactivation event is commenced, after the predetermined time period. To return to full functionality of the processing device while in the deactivation grace period all that may be required is entry of a authentication information (e.g., password) that is weaker than a stronger authentication information initially used to log into the processing device.