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Training Camp • Cybersecurity Glossary
Continuous authentication repeatedly verifies identity during a session using behavioral and contextual signals, enabling adaptive zero trust access.
Continuous Authentication Definition: Continuous authentication repeatedly verifies identity during a session using behavioral and contextual signals, enabling adaptive zero trust access.
Continuous authentication is a security model that repeatedly verifies a user's identity throughout a session rather than only at initial login. It analyzes behavioral and contextual signals such as typing rhythm, mouse movement, device posture, location, and biometrics to maintain an ongoing trust assessment. If anomalies suggest the account may be compromised or the session hijacked, the system can prompt for re-verification or terminate access, supporting zero trust principles.
Continuous Authentication is one of the topics you'll master in the Security+ Boot Camp.
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