user authentication
Best Practices in Authentication and Access Control: Comparing 802.1x to the Nevis LAN Security Approach
White Paper The 802.1x protocol should be the obvious choice when implementing user-based authentication in enterprise networks. Because it doesn't give a complete solution for authentication and policy requirements, even when it's integrated with a Network... [31 May 2008]
Best Practices for Securing Your Wireless LAN
White Paper Network and security staff must first evaluate a potentially confusing set of authentication and encryption mechanisms to be used in the network. Depending on the security selected, IT will then need to establish and document the corporate WLAN... [31 May 2008]
Identity-Based NAC and PCI Data Security Compliance
White Paper This paper describes how key PCI security requirements for encryption, user authentication, virus and malware control, access control and audit can be met with a Caymas Identity-Based NAC appliance. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) has established a... [31 May 2008]
MSDN Webcast: Working With Membership Providers (Level 200)
White Paper Since the release of Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, developers have been able to take advantage of the work from the patterns & practices group around authentication and authorization. This is a deep-dive webcast that looks at what is involved in creating... [30 May 2008]
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and AJAX (Level 100)
White Paper This webcast covers the basics of how to use the authentication and membership providers. The webcast explores the world of modern Web development techniques by looking at how the Microsoft AJAX library and SharePoint Server 2007 can be used... [30 May 2008]
Maximize Your Endpoint Security Solutions With Symantec Endpoint Encryption
White Paper With the Symantec advanced encryption solution, encryption and authentication are transparent to the end user and performed with minimal performance impact, leading to no degradation in system performance. [01 May 2008]
Publishing Exchange Client Access With ISA 2006 - The Complete Solution (Part 2)
White Paper User should confirm that forms-based authentication is not selected on the Exchange front-end server and enable RPC over HTTP on the front-end Exchange server. This paper explains Configuration settings for Exchange CAS/Front-End and the... [23 Apr 2008]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News T is for Two-factor authentication A browser request is first sent via a switch to a machine on the ISP network, which then redirects the user to the Phorm Webwise server to have an anonymised cookie attached to it, allowing Phorm to serve targeted... [18 Apr 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News T is for Two-factor authentication But it is the insider that still poses the biggest risk according to all but one of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel. Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned... [17 Apr 2008]
Busy Airport Becomes an Agile, Secure, Unified Enterprise With Sun Portal and Communication Products
White Paper The company wanted to improve airport communication and information access; cut data center costs and time to deploy applications; and also provide user authentication and single sign-on for increased data protection. [16 Apr 2008]
PorKI: Making User PKI Safe on Machines of Heterogeneous Trustworthiness
White Paper Public key cryptography can reduce this risk of attack, because authentication using PKI is designed to not give away sensitive data. However, using private keys on standard platforms exposes the user to "Keyjacking"; mobile users wishing to use... [16 Apr 2008]
Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'
News T is for Two-factor authentication David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, was the group program manager in charge of designing User Account Control (UAC), which, when activated, requires people to run Vista in standard user mode rather... [14 Apr 2008]
TNET Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does Security Enhancements for Remote Access (Level 300)
White Paper The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft IT has dealt with remote access security with the latest generation of Microsoft products - Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003, Internet Authentication Service, Internet Security... [12 Apr 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Inside Application Layer Filtering (Level 300)
White Paper The attendee will understand the SMTP filter model and the HTTP filtering engine, and see how these integrate with Internet Information Services 6.0, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service to help form a... [11 Apr 2008]
Password Security Guidelines
White Paper A number of technologies are available for user authentication. This document introduces the basic concepts of network authentication. The most popular authentication systems are: In particular, it focuses on the use of user-IDs and passwords to... [10 Apr 2008]
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