When designing and deploying security solutions, a thorough understanding of what you have to protect is important as well as understanding the vulnerabilities within and around your assets and infrastructure. A threat analysis considers the range of currently known threats and the potential and likelihood that an attack will be attempted against your organization to help define what’s coming at you.
Read moreIn order to protect your assets, you must first know what they are, where they are, and how they are tracked and managed. Are they secured? Who has access to them? Who tracks and manages them? Do you have functional procedures in place to respond and recover from a security breach quickly? Do you have a process improvement cycle to prevent re-occurrence?
Read moreOAuth is a type of single sign-on solution that is gaining popularity online. Single sign-on is the concept of authentication when a single logon event can be used to allow access into a collection of systems. This is different than traditional authentication where each system would require its own unique and local authentication. Single sign-on has been a standard element in company networks for decades. There have been many attempts to duplicate this concept on the Internet, but only now with the adoption of OAuth is that actually starting to becoming a reality.
Read moreAuthentication is one of the essential components of security. It is one part of the concept known as authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA). AAA stands for authentication, authorization, and accounting. Authentication is the process of claiming an identity then proving that you are that claimed identity. Authorization is the mechanism to control what you can access or do. Accounting is the recording of events into a log in order to review the activities against the rules and policies in order to detect violations or confirm compliance. All three of these should be addressed when constructing a system in order to have a reasonable foundation for reliable security.
Read moreMulti-factor authentication is a method of logon verification where at least two different factors of proof are required.
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