Device-based application security

摘要

Disclosed are techniques and apparatuses for implementing device-based application security. These techniques enable a computing device to assign a security level from a hierarchy of security levels to an application. Once the security level is assigned to the application, authentication techniques associated with the security level can be initiated in response to a request to launch the application. When an indication is received that the security level for the application has been satisfied, the application can then be launched, availing a user of the application's full functionality.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a particular computing device, an indication of a particular security level that has been assigned to an application by at least a threshold number of other computing devices; assigning, by the particular computing device, the particular security level to the application based on the received indication, the assigned security level selected from a hierarchy of security levels, each security level in the hierarchy associated with an authentication technique; responsive to a request to launch the application, initiating, by the particular computing device, an authentication technique associated with the assigned security level; and responsive to an indication that the assigned security level has been satisfied by the authentication technique, launching, by the particular computing device, the application.