What Authentication Factors Are Available on Your Portable Electronic Devices

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Essay

What authentication factors are available on your portable electronic devices (HINT: something the user…)? Do you use these? Why or why not?

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Definitions:

Parameter

Numeric characteristic of a population.

Population

The entire aggregation of items or individuals from which samples can be drawn for statistical analysis.

Measure of Variability

A statistic that describes the degree to which scores in a distribution spread out or cluster together, such as range, variance, or standard deviation.

Statistic

A numerical measure that describes a characteristic of a sample derived from a larger population.