INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: AMANO YASUSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 11.04.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

To provide an information processing apparatus adapted to suppress the lowering of a security level while relieving the burden on a user as compared with the case of performing a plurality of authentication at all times and the case of doing only one authentication without exception.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus executes authentication processing for authenticating a user depending upon first authentication processing that is any of authentication processing out of a plurality of authentication processing different in security level (S100-S104) and, if instructed an execution of a job by an authenticated user authenticated by the first authentication processing and when a security level of the first authentication processing is lower than a security level of a job, executes authentication processing that authenticates the authenticated user by second authentication processing having a security level higher than a security level of the first authentication processing out of a plurality of authentication processing as an additional authentication processing (S110-S120).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 【課題】常に複数の認証を行う場合及び常に１つしか認証を行わない場合と比べて、ユーザの負担を軽減しつつ、セキュリティレベルの低下を抑制する。【解決手段】情報処理装置は、セキュリティレベルが異なる複数の認証処理のうちの何れかの認証処理である第１の認証処理によってユーザを認証する認証処理を実行し（Ｓ１００～Ｓ１０４）、第１の認証処理により認証された認証済みユーザによりジョブの実行が指示された場合、第１の認証処理のセキュリティレベルがジョブのセキュリティレベルより低いとき、追加の認証処理として複数の認証処理のうちの第１の認証処理のセキュリティレベルよりセキュリティレベルが高い第２の認証処理によって前記認証済みユーザを認証する認証処理を実行する（Ｓ１１０～Ｓ１２０）。【選択図】図６