article thumbnail

Two-Factor Authentication Evaluation Guide

Tech Republic Security

By verifying your users’ identities before they access your network, two-factor authentication protects your applications and data against unauthorized access. Authentication factors can be something you know, like a password; something you have, like your device.

article thumbnail

Arista streamlines network access control via SaaS

Network World

Arista Networks has rolled out a SaaS-based service aimed at helping enterprises more network access control (NAC) more easily. To read this article in full, please click here

Network 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives

CIO Business Intelligence

Leadership styles have traditionally centered their focus on profits, share prices, and productivity, but a new approach increasingly taken up by today’s leaders, known as “authentic leadership,” takes a different spin on the concept. But ultimately, authentic leadership can be viewed as the opposite of traditional leadership in many ways.

article thumbnail

How does certificate-based authentication work?

Network World

Certificate-based authentication is a cryptographic technique that allows one computer to securely identify itself to another across a network connection, using a document called a public-key certificate. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

article thumbnail

802.1X: What you need to know about this LAN-authentication standard

Network World

is a standard that defines how to provide authentication for devices that connect with other devices on local area networks (LANs). IEEE 802.1X How to deploy 802.1x for Wi-Fi using WPA3 enterprise. To read this article in full, please click here

LAN 111
article thumbnail

What is Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA)?

Network World

Zero Trust is a term coined by John Kindervag while he was an analyst at Forrester Research to describe a strategic framework in which nothing on the network is trusted by default – not devices, not end users, not processes. Everything must be authenticated, authorized, verified and continuously monitored.

article thumbnail

8 questions to ask vendors about Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Network World

Today’s hybrid workplace, where employees are on the road, working from home and maybe visiting the office once or twice a week, has forced network and security teams to adopt a more flexible approach to managing the network, identities, and authentication.

Network 183