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What data points are essential for building a passkey intelligence engine?

Vincent Delitz

Vincent

Created: January 8, 2025

Updated: January 9, 2025

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What Data Points Are Essential for Building a Passkey Intelligence Engine?#

A passkey intelligence engine requires specific data points to optimize authentication flows and provide a seamless user experience. Here are the essential data types:

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1. Device Metadata#

  • Operating System and Browser: Identify the user’s OS and browser version to ensure compatibility with passkeys.
  • Hardware Capabilities: Detect device features like biometric sensors, Bluetooth support, and LocalStorage availability.

2. User Authentication Data#

  • Existing Passkeys: Track registered passkeys, their locations (e.g., local device, cloud-synced), and cross-device availability.
  • Authentication History: Log successful and failed login attempts to understand patterns and improve decision-making.

3. Contextual Behavior#

  • Interaction Trends: Monitor how users interact with passkey prompts, including time to authenticate and frequency of errors.
  • Fallback Usage: Record instances where fallback options, such as passwords or OTPs, are utilized instead of passkeys.
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4. System and Network Insights#

  • Network Conditions: Assess latency and connection stability to predict and mitigate potential authentication disruptions.
  • Geolocation Data: Analyze location patterns to identify anomalies and improve fraud detection.

5. Optimization Goals#

  • Success Metrics: Track passkey login success rates and correlate them with specific devices, browsers, or contexts.
  • User Feedback: Incorporate feedback to refine the intelligence engine and align with user expectations.

6. Security Signals#

  • Authenticator Details: Store authenticator-specific metadata, such as AAGUIDs, attestation type, and signature counts.
  • Suspicious Behavior: Detect and log irregular authentication attempts that may indicate potential fraud.

By collecting and analyzing these data points, a passkey intelligence engine can dynamically adapt authentication flows, maximize success rates, and provide a user-centric, secure experience.

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