Authentication (information security)/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Information security [r]: The set of policies and protective measures used to ensure appropriate confidentiality, integrity and availability to information; usually assumed to be information in a computer or telecommunications network but the principles extend to people and the physical world ^[e]
  • Identification, authentication and credentialing [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Two-factor identification [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Multifactorial authentication [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Server authentication [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Password [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • One-time password [r]: Add brief definition or description
    • S/Key [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Biometrics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Security token [r]: A pocket-sized device that generates a device-specific, time-variant authentication code, to be validated by an authentication server in combination with a user ID; the code is manually into a computer session by the user ^[e]
• RADIUS (information security) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• TACACS [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kerberos [r]: A protocol using a central server to provide two clients with a shared session key, without either client having to publish a public key. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Identification (information security) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Credentialing (information security) [r]: Mechanisms and processes used to grant privileges, in a secure information system, to an actor who has been identified and authenticated; ideally follows the Principle of Least Privilege ^[e]
• Auditing [r]: Add brief definition or description