Sara Jeza Alotaibi

From Access Management System (AMS) to a Ubiquitous Access Management System (UbAMS), over Federated Access Management System (FAMS)

The increasing needs for updated information and collaborations around the world initiates the need to integrate Access Management Systems (AMS) with each other. The integration of AMS developed the concept of Federated Access Management Systems (FAMS). However, even this development was not able to cease the need for maintaining multiple accounts, it could only reduce the need. Moreover, the existing AMS and FAMS do not provide the security and privacy desired, these systems tend to have trust, identification and biased services issues related to them. Along with these performance issues, a lack of personalisation, usability and accessibility issues also reside. Furthermore, following extensive analysis of the current systems, a new term has been invented for an innovative system which will address all the limitations and constraints of AMS and FAMS -- Ubiquitous Access Management Systems (UbAMS). UbAMS will provide users with access to their web accounts and services from any access management system, rather than providing access to a specific set of systems. It will also provide personalisation features, alongside compliance with accessibility and usability standards.

FingerID: A new security model based on fingerprint recognition for personal learning environments (PLEs)

The current practice of password based security for PLEs in general and the Internet in particular is inadequate. The widespread authentication mechanism of username and password is out-dated, and does not meet current needs. Intruders and hackers have also learnt, and become more tech savvy. Besides, remembering a plethora of long passwords and passphrases, sometimes as many as 15 or 20, is cumbersome. This raises the need to introduce a better and more reliable authentication mechanism which is not dependent on a series of characters, but rather on a technology that is unique and only possessed by the individual. Similar services already exist, and they are good in some situations, but prove to be inadequate under other circumstances. In this paper, we propose a one-stop solution to eliminate all these problems, named FingerID. This solution will make the experience of access to distributed web accounts a more secure, accessible and usable one. This solution has been developed, tested, and proven. The findings of this paper will revolutionise the entire authentication mechanism on the web, and thereby enable the user access to distributed accounts at a single point.

Attendance system based on the Internet of Things for supporting blended learning

A number of learning systems have been developed in recent years to provide secure attendance systems for blended learning; however, most have not been very successful. Furthermore, alongside increasing the level of awareness of the need to deploy interoperable physical and virtual learning services for each university that supports the idea of blended learning, there exists an immediate need for the establishment of clear standards and guidelines for the successful integration of all physical and virtual attendance systems that relate to blended learning services. The importance and motivation for designing a new attendance system based on the Internet of Things that supports blended learning at Taif University in Saudi Arabia is discussed in this paper with respect to three perspectives: security, which includes identity; the Internet of Things, comprising physical and virtual objects; and blended learning, containing Blackboard system. Not many systems abide guidelines for all of these perspectives; thus, the proposed system aims to change this and provide its users with attendance and the ability to access their physical and virtual learning services in a secure and usable way.