International Business Machines Corporation
NETWORK APPLICATION SECURITY QUESTION DETECTION AND MODIFICATION

Abstract:

A method, system, and computer program product for detecting a network application security question is provided. The method includes receiving permission to access social media sources of a user. The social media sources and Internet based sources of the user are monitored in response to receiving the permission and associated data is generated and stored. A request for access to a secure account of the user is received and a list of security questions is presented to the user. The list of security questions is analyzed with respect to the data and each security question is ranked. An answer to a question of the list is received and analyzed and security attributes of the answer with respect to a potential malicious attempt to provide a predicted answer to for access to secure account are determined. A resulting security process with respect to enabling access to the secure account is executed.