Authorized! access denied, unauthorized! access granted

  • Authors:
  • Abdulaziz Almehmadi;Khalil El-Khatib

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada;University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Existing access control systems are mostly identity-based. However, such access control systems impose risks because recognized identity is not essentially an interpretation of good intentions of access. On the other hand, an un-identified individual might request access to suppress damage or prevent a catastrophic incident from happening. To address the limitation of current access control systems, we propose an access control method that is based on feelings which relates an access decision to the current detected emotion of the user, and map it to a category of feelings. Feelings categories are either negative resulting in denying access, or positive leading to access being granted. The proposed emotion-based access control (EBAC) mechanism adds the feelings sensation to the access control machines by analyzing the requesters' current brain signals at the time of access request to detect their current emotions, and then grants or denies access.