Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

How to spot fake logins

From what we have said so far, it should be clear that the use of authentication procedures based on security tokens, such as passwords, SMS, OTPs, and others, should at least be integrated with automated anomaly detection procedures.

Among the anomalies related to the management of user accounts is the following:

• Brute force access attempts, aimed at identifying the user's password by entering different passwords within a limited period of time
• Simultaneous access from IP addresses belonging to different geographical areas
• The use of devices, software, and operating systems that are uncommon for the user
• Frequency and typing speed that's incompatible with human operators

Obviously, the list of events to be monitored ...