Achieving effective and acceptable means of user authentication has been a long-recognised challenge of IT security. Steven Furnell examines the situation, and considers the fact that while the range of authentication opportunities has diversified, we are still some way from having a universally applicable and effective solution.

The presentation was a keynote talk at the ICISSP 2015 conference in Angers, France on 9 February 2015.

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