User Authentication Mechanism for Access Control Management: A Comprehensive Study

Abstract

The threat of cyberattacks is growing in all sectors today, including banks, governments, healthcare institutions and other organizations due to the exponential increase in cloud, IOT and smart devices utilization in recent years. When it comes to protecting organizations' and clients' information and privacy in security risks, there is a strong desire to develop and use more secure authentication techniques. This paper presents an overview of authentication techniques built on the fundamental authentication metrics, i.e., knowledge, ownership, and biometrics, their advantages, limits, and open issues, and future possibilities for developing secure authentication techniques for securing critical and sensitive information.