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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many organizations are moving away from using the network perimeter as a trust indicator when building and enforcing access policies for apps and other IT resources. An increasing number of ...

With more business owners and information technology managers using payments networks with smartphones and other mobile devices, Trustwave figured it was time to put up more walls of defense to keep ...

Viettel plans to commercialize network authentication across financial services, e-government, fintech, and mobile application security. This marks a major step toward a global identity layer rooted ...

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 ...

The Linux Foundation's CAMARA project is exposing telecommunications network capabilities to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making network intelligence programmatically ...

Most devices accessing the Internal Revenue Service’s internal network using wireless connections and virtual private networks weren’t authenticated, according to an audit. IRS Oversight Cyber Threats ...