PRESENT-DAY PATENT- A PREVIEW

One Time Voice Password (OTVP) for Secure IT Service Delivery...

Delivering IT-related resources as a service is very common in this era of cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT). However, letting an access to a software application or any network database has to be accomplished with greater concern on security and timely delivery of services to satisfy the end user. The authentication protocols play a vital role in ensuring security. In specific, the One Time Passwords (OTPs) are the usual means of authentication these days and they strongly deny service access to an unauthorized person. Though OTPs allow access to a service only through a registered device or system within a prescribed time, the authentication of the user’s voice after OTP confirmation can provide an additional security in highly secure applications. This is what a present invention has dealt with to authenticate a user, requesting service access in a cloud-assisted platform. The key components of the invention are: (i) The user or the IoT device; (ii) The Fog node that render facilities or infrastructure for the end user to get in connection with the cloud computing data center; (iii) The maintenance and monitoring unit; (iv) The admin panel that accept or decline the request to confirm authorization and (v) The smart contract that has the details of the registered user. As per the invention, an end user requests service access to the admin panel, which provides the OTP and asks for the voice message. The admin panel, on receiving the OTP and user’s voice through IoT wearables, checks them with the registered data in the smart contract through the monitoring unit. The user will be rendered the service, if the OTP and the user’s voice matched the one in the smart contract.  Though cloud computing and the associated network paradigms allow easy access to IT services in an anywhere, anytime and ‘pay-as-you-use’ manner, severe threats equally arise in the form of intrusion, reduced data privacy and unauthorized decryption or service usage. The invention’s One Time Voice Password (OTVP) authentication approach for IT service delivery is believed to largely assist in such scenarios. Inventing new authentication techniques, which involve images or videos with reduced data transfer bandwidths, might be thought as a better research direction for the future…