Principal Investigator: Tony Q.S. Quek (Professor, Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor, Fellow of IEEE, Acting Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) Pillar Head Sector Lead, SUTD AI Program, Deputy Director, SUTD-ZJU IDEA)
Team: Jay Prakash (Ph.D student, ISTD, SUTD), Andrei Bytes (Ph.D student, ISTD, SUTD & Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed (Ph.D student, ISTD, SUTD)
Mentor: Felix Gnanapragasam (Mentor, NTUitive)
Multimodal and Seamless authentication framework
Varuthya aims to design usable and secure authentication solutions for web-services and inter-connected devices. As our flagship product, we introduce PhyAuth, a multi-modal multi-factor authentication (M3FA) framework, which would replace contemporary two-factor-authentication (TFA). Our study reveals serious usability and security tradeoffs across industries and methods of TFA. Our solution implements security protocols and frameworks on the pillars of wireless and acoustic sensing, cryptographic primitives, multi-model analysis and design science.
PhyAuth has been developed with a focus on a human-centric security and ensures a closed-loop continuous verification of possession and proximity of the token device. While security assurance is higher than before, it expects minimal intersections from humans while authenticating logins. Varuthya’s seamless M3FA, PhyAuth, is expected to be adopted across all sectors which could not adopt TFA either due to the risk of losing user base, cost of deployment or limited services. LLP has helped us identify key market segments, pain points and contextualise our solutions for each of these clients.