Patent ID: 11886558
Assignee: ONESPAN NORTH AMERICA INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method to secure a user's interaction with a remotely accessible computer-based application, the method comprising the steps of:
collecting one or more sets of contextual data;
anonymizing the collected one or more sets of contextual data;
transferring the anonymized contextual data sets to an authentication server;
at the authentication server analyzing the received anonymized contextual data sets for authenticating the user;
wherein the one or more sets of contextual data comprise values of one or more computable contextual data elements;
wherein the step of anonymizing the collected one or more sets of contextual data comprises transforming a first value of at least one of said computable contextual data elements using a similarity preserving anonymization transformation.