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New CAEP event - Risk level change event #205

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## Risk Level Change {#risk-level-change}
Event Type URI:

`https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/caep/event-type/risk-level-change`

A vendor may deploy mechanisms to gather and analyze various signals associated with subjects such as users, devices, etc. These signals, which can originate from diverse channels and methods beyond the scope of this event description, are processed to derive an abstracted risk level representing the subject's current threat status.

The Risk Level Change event is employed by the Trasnmitter to communicate any modifications in a subject's assessed risk level at the time indicated by the `event_timestamp` field in the Risk Level Change event. The Transmitter may generate this event to indicate:
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The Risk Level Change event is employed by the Trasnmitter to communicate any modifications in a subject's assessed risk level at the time indicated by the `event_timestamp` field in the Risk Level Change event. The Transmitter may generate this event to indicate:
The Risk Level Change event is employed by the Transmitter to communicate any modifications in a subject's assessed risk level at the time indicated by the `event_timestamp` field in the Risk Level Change event. The Transmitter may generate this event to indicate:


* User's risk has changed due to potential suspecious access from unknown destination, password compromise, addition of strong authenticator or other reasons.
* Device's risk has changed due to installation of unapproved software, connection to insecure pheripheral device, encryption of data or other reasons.
* Any other subject's risk changes due to variety of reasons.


### Event Specific Claims {#risk-level-change-event-specific-claims}
The following optional claims MAY be present in a Session Presented event:

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Could we add a field that describes the type of risk? You mention in your example user risk and device risk. What if we had a field called risk_type whose values were an enum:

  • DEVICE
  • USER
  • ACCOUNT
  • OTHER

There may be other values that we should include in this enum as well.

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I think it is a mistake to make this optional field required and to use it for passing important info about the event.

: REQUIRED, JSON string indicates the reason that contributed to the risk level changes by the Transmitter. Overall this is an OPTIONAL claim, but marked as REQUIRED for Risk Level Change to indicate reasons behind the risk level change.

current_level
: REQUIRED, JSON string indicates the current level of the risk for the subject. Value MUST be one of LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH

previous_level
: OPTIONAL, JSON string indicates the previously known level of the risk for the subject. Value MUST be one of LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH. If the Transmitter omits this value, the Receiver MUST assume that the previous assurance level is unknown to the Transmitter.


### Examples {#session-presented-examples}
The following is a non-normative example of a Session Presented event:

~~~json
{
"iss": "https://idp.example.com/123456789/",
"jti": "24c63fb56e5a2d77a6b512616ca9fa24",
"iat": 1615305159,
"aud": "https://sp.example.com/caep",
"txn": 8675309,
"sub_id": {
"format": "iss_sub",
"iss": "https://idp.example.com/3456789/",
"sub": "[email protected]"
},
"events":{
"https://schemas.openid.net/secevent/caep/event-type/risk-level-change":{
"current_level": "LOW",
"previous_level": "HIGH",
"event_timestamp": 1615304991643,
"reason_admin":{
"en": "User's password detected in the pwned password dump"
}
}
}
}
~~~

# Security Considerations
Any implementations of events described in this document SHOULD comply with the Shared Signals Framework {{SSF}}. Exchanging events described herein without complying with the Shared Signals Framework {{SSF}} may result in security issues.

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