Patent ID: 9558344
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for authentication, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computer processors, an indication an account is attempting to access striped data; identifying, by one or more computer processors, at least two computing devices that are associated with the account, wherein at least a portion of the striped data is located on at least one computing device associated with the account; determining, by one or more computer processors, a distance from a first computing device of the identified at least two computing devices to a second computing device of the identified one or more computing devices; determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the distance from the first computing device to the second computing device is within a threshold proximity; identifying, by one or more computer processors, the computing devices associated with the account; determining, by one or more computing devices, whether a preset number of the computing devices associated with the account are within a threshold proximity of one another adjusting, by one or more computer processors, the threshold proximity for the account based on a probability of a data breach; and determining, by one or more computer processors, whether to grant access to the striped data based at least in part on the determination of threshold proximity.