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Best Practices in Authentication and Access Control: Comparing 802.1x to the Nevis LAN Security Approach
White Papers Because it doesn't give a complete solution for authentication and policy requirements, even when it's integrated with a Network Access Control (NAC) solution. The 802.1x protocol should be the obvious choice when implementing user-based...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Integrating Two-Factor Authentication With Network Access Control: Tying User Identities to Access Control Policies
White Papers The use of two-factor authentication to assure the identities of users gaining network access is essential for secure operations. The Identity Assurance portfolio from RSA, The Security Division of EMC, extends user authentication from a single...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
802.1X: Port-Based Authentication Standard for Network Access Control (NAC) - A Secure, Strong and Flexible Framework for Network Access Control (NAC)
White Papers It is this strong security, assured authentication, and stout data protection that has made the 802.1X standard the core ingredient in today's most successful Network Access Control (NAC) solutions. The 802.1X standard delivers powerful...
[July 13, 2009, 1:21]
Police to trial integrated authentication
News West Midlands Police is to trial an identity authentication system that will allow both physical and digital access to police systems, with the projected replacement of warrant cards with chip-and-pin smart-cards.
[September 25, 2006, 9:35]
Router bug could let hackers control Internet traffic
News The problem can also be sidestepped by using Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS+) or Radius systems for authentication instead of a local database. Cisco said that when the HTTP server is enabled and users are authorised from...
[June 29, 2001, 15:26]
Security flaws found in Cisco IP phones
News So if an unauthorised person tried to access the device at a later time, it would permit access without further authentication. If an administrator never accesses the device via the HTTP interface, the device is not vulnerable to the authentication...
[February 22, 2007, 8:22]
802.1x - Securing the wireless world
News It's already in Windows XP and is appearing in a number of other operating systems, as well as in switches, gateways and access control devices.x works in conjunction with remote authentication servers, normally -- although not compulsorily...
[April 24, 2002, 20:54]
Wireless LAN security
News The missing pieces in current WLAN standards and solutions, says Kozup, are access control, authentication, confidentiality, mobility, and quality of service (bandwidth management). The Control Server sits on the network and centrally manages...
[April 17, 2002, 13:39]
Physical security becoming an IT problem
News David McCaskill, section manager for global security solutions at Proctor & Gamble, explained that the pharmaceutical giant had also integrated its physical and IT authentication systems. We are also seeing these authentication systems come together.
[March 18, 2005, 12:35]
Cisco NAC vulnerable to attack
News For the CAM to authenticate to the CAS, each holds a "shared secret" — pieces of information which, when combined, allow authentication to occur. A malicious user can guess the file name and download it without authentication.
[January 5, 2007, 13:38]
Extreme bolsters NAC offering
News The platform's 802.1x-based authentication system has also been streamlined within the UI. And the system now supports authentication pass-through to Microsoft Active Directory and OpenLDAP, in addition to operating as a proxy for an external IAS...
[July 24, 2007, 17:46]
iPhone iFear
Blog Additional password authentication will help control who accesses certain systems, and endpoint security software can secure the company’s hardware from theft, or malicious attack through a USB port. Educating employees to try and alter their...
[July 16, 2009, 10:24]
ID management remains problematic for businesses
News Systems cover pseudonymous access, but now there's a need for very strong, two-factor authentication. For Accenture clients which have implemented single sign-on systems, Okin said that many were considering two-factor authentication.
[April 27, 2007, 18:00]
Save by proxy with Cisco IOS
News While authentication proxy is compatible with Cisco's IOS Firewall, network address translation (NAT), content based access control (CBAC), and VPN features, the more of these features you combine on one router, the more complex the configuration...
[May 8, 2002, 11:51]
Microsoft and Cisco clash on security
News At the heart of the debate is the Remote Authentication Dial In User Service, or Radius, the de facto standard for authenticating users accessing networks remotely. With Microsoft's setup, customers are forced to use the Microsoft Windows Internet...
[September 17, 2004, 13:00]
Privacy advocates take aim at Windows XP
News We believe we have designed an authentication system that is a model for the industry, because it puts users in control of their own information, and who is allowed access to that information. Through HailStorm, which relies on Microsoft's Passport...
[July 26, 2001, 10:28]
Oracle secures identity management
News It can automatically provision a person's name and password on several systems and can also issue digital certificates based on the public key infrastructure (PKI) system for authentication. Oracle executives say that a centralised authentication...
[October 16, 2003, 16:40]
Solaris to enlist military security
News The US Department of Defense (DoD) also uses the cards, which contain a chip encoded with identity information, he said.Isn't a good thing that they are doing multifactor authentication in the DoD, people with their finger on the button?
[September 18, 2003, 11:30]
Managing your systems remotely and securely
News This approach uses a standard Web connection via SSL to connect to the remote KVM device, and it offers local authentication or authentication via LDAP or RADIUS. This integrated, secure digital KVM appliance combines out-of-band control with BIOS...
[July 5, 2005, 10:35]
Microsoft finds several 'critical' Web glitches
News The fault occurs with a default Commerce Server file called AuthFilter, which handles some authentication procedures. An attacker could send authentication data that overran an unchecked buffer in AuthFilter, causing the AuthFilter process to fail...
[February 25, 2002, 17:31]
