In the NAC products we tested, authentication varies from very strong to very weak, and every point in-between. When starting down your path of evaluating NAC products, decide very early what kind of ...

Networks such as Ethernet (Intranet, Internet), wireless (cell phone,WiFi), and power-line communication (PLC) each consist of a server orbase station and the nodes or network devices. Such networks ...

The most common way cyber-criminal hackers break into enterprise networks is by stealing or guessing usernames and passwords. The attacks, whether the goal is stealing information, executing a ...

An ancient network authentication protocol has received its first death notice. The protocol, which has roots going back to the first local area network days of the 1980s, is called Microsoft NTLM, ...

Regular readers will know that I’m a big fan of context-based access. I like the idea of gathering as much context information as possible and using it for authentication and authorization as well as ...

Hybrid cloud identity and access management services add complexity and opportunity for attackers to network authentication processes, as recently demonstrated for Azure AD. It’s been common knowledge ...

Blockchain firm Lightning Labs drafted the specifications of a new Lightning Network-based authentication system that could replace traditional email-based accounts. According to a March 30 ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security vulnerability in RADIUS, a widely used network authentication protocol dating back to the 1990s that’s still in widespread use today.