Shared Key Authentication (SKA)

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SAP® Support of the Healthecare Supply Chain's Ongoing Effort to Ensure Patient Safety and Drive Business Value by SAP America Inc
published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. This whitepaper discusses the key conclusions of their study. The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently...
Tokenless Two-Factor Authentication: It Finally Adds Up by PhoneFactor, Inc.
PhoneFactor, along with related security and deployment considerations. It also includes an overview of other currently available two-factor authentication solutions. Securing access to sensitive corporate and customer data is critical, especially in industries that require a regulatory...
802.1X: Port-Based Authentication Standard for Network Access Control (NAC) by Juniper Networks, Inc.
to be connected and productive 24/7. While mobility and wireless network access are highly desirable, maintaining security remains a key concern for enterprises. The greater the number of WLANs an enterprise has, the greater risk there is that the network can be hacked or...
IT Briefing: Calculating Today's Strong Authentication ROI by PhoneFactor, Inc.
one security breach can cause. One incident can lead to damaged customer confidence and brand reputation as well. Fortunately, there are strong authentication solutions available. Organizations must confront serious security risks posed by worldwide cybercriminals, malicious actions of former...
Calculating Today's Strong Authentication ROI by PhoneFactor, Inc.
with the aftermath.

But what's the best solution available? How do you convince your CEO that it's more critical now than ever to invest in strong authentication? We'll arm you with the tools to simplify both your budget and security decisions as you investigate strong authentication solutions for your...
Fact or fiction: Biometrics myths and mantras by SearchFinancialSecurity
In this podcast, biometrics expert Joel Dubin will debunk the many misconceptions about enterprise biometrics and highlight key considerations for organizations that think biometrics might be right for them. Misconceptions abound when it comes to biometric...
Survey for IT Pros: Offer Insight Into the Creation and Development of IT Products by ZoomPanel
to define the creation and development of the products and services you use daily. This online survey is for IT pros to share their opinions on key tech products and industry trends. Your voice is instrumental in helping to define the creation and development of the products and services...
WPA2 Security: Choosing the Right WLAN Authentication Method for Homes and Enterprises by Global Knowledge
This paper will explore the authentication methods available with WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2) and identify several important best practices to consider when deploying a wireless...
When Corporate Network Safety Starts at Employees' Homes: Protecting Your Network from Home Wireless Hackers by WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
router hardware and configuration settings, and in some cases, providing firewall/VPN endpoint appliances (managed from the data center) for key employees' in-home use. This white paper covers eight essential tips for nailing down security for off-site wireless users. Share it with your...
Mitigating Man-in-the-Middle and Trojan Attacks Whitepaper by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
these dangerous and almost invisible attacks. The fraud landscape is changing rapidly. While financial institutions have implemented strong authentication to prevent fraudsters from gaining access to bank accounts, fraudsters have been developing sophisticated ways to circumvent established...
Creating and Managing Wireless Security Policy by BlackBerry
the security of enterprise data with more than 400 policies, including application control, role-based administration, two-factor authentication for applications and enterprise device authentication.

View this webcast to learn more...
NomaDesk: The Easiest and Most Secure Way to Share, Synchronize and Backup Critical Files by NomaDesk
Targeted for the mobile workforce at the SMB, SOHO, and enterprise levels, NomaDesk is the easiest, most secure way to share, synchronize and back up business critical files, from anywhere, even offline. Product Type: NomaDesk 3.0 Team and Personal Fileserver

Target User: Mobile workers in the SMB, SOHO and...
Digital Billboard Advertising - New Life for a Classic Medium by Motorola, Inc.
demographic characteristics brands target.

While the screens or billboards may be the most visible component of a digital signage network, the key difference from paste and paper billboards is the network component.

Read this whitepaper to find out how Motorola developed an innovative...
Special RSA Online Fraud Report: What to Expect in 2009 and Beyond by RSA, The Security Division of EMC

Read this report to learn more about online fraud trends, including the advancement of Trojan functionality, Fraud-as-a-Service, two-factor authentication deployments, and enterprise fraud, and to learn what you can do about it...
Infonetics: WAN Optimization Appliance Market Highlights 1Q09 by Blue Coat
Vendor market share positions shuffled once again in 1Q09: With Cisco down 30%, Riverbed down 10%, and Blue Coat holding steady, Blue Coat is back on top with 30% revenue market share. This market has essentially become a 3-horse race, with the top 3 vendors capturing roughly 3/4 of the overall market. Vendor...
eGuide - Mobile Security Policies by BlackBerry
In this expert E-Guide, you'll discover three key elements that are essential to your mobile security policy and learn how government regulations affect what is required in your policy...
The Perils of Using the Wrong Approach to USB Flash Drive Security by IronKey
This paper examines how the IronKey flash drive uses hardware-based encryption and key management within a highly secure framework to eliminate physical and logical avenues of attack. A seemingly endless string of headlines...
Protecting Against Today's Top IT Security Threats by PhoneFactor, Inc.
High-profile data breaches frequent the headlines, with countless smaller incidents happening almost daily. Your data is under attack, and the frequency of assaults and sophistication of the methods employed are increasing. High-profile data breaches frequent the headlines, with countless...
Hitachi and Symantec: Build Your Archiving and Discovery Strategy Today by Continental Resources
performance.
3. Outstanding e-Discovery support for more efficient search and retrieval.
4. Write Once, Read Many (WORM) storage, authentication and retention ensures the integrity of your archived data and meets corporate governance and compliance requirements.
5. Delivers data...
DYNAMIC FREQUENCY SELECTION (DFS) REGULATIONS AND THE IMPLICATIONS TO SERVICE PROVIDERS by Motorola, Inc.
This white paper discusses automated DFS configuration solutions that simplify implementation, operation and compliance of networks using 5 GHz unlicensed frequency bands worldwide. There is good news for wireless broadband providers in North America, Unlicensed frequencies at 5.4 GHz are now...
On Demand and Enterprise CRM Integration: An Alternative Approach to Integrating CRM Applications by Cicero Inc.
To get the most you can out of your CRM system it needs to be able to communicate with other back-end systems. This paper examines an alternative approach to CRM integration, Desktop Integration, and explores the advantages desktop integration has over more traditional approaches. As Customer...
Best Approach to Disable or Terminate Rogue USB Drives by IronKey
This document talks about a key component, IronKey Silver Bullet Service™, the only remote deny, disable, destruct capability for managing USB flash drives over...
Sales Force Automation: A SugarCRM's Sales Tools Demo by SugarCRM Inc.
Watch this demonstration of SugarCRM to learn the many benefits SugarCRM has to offer you and your company, from automated lead notification to track and share sales contacts and much more. This demonstration will show just how easy SugarCRM is to use and how it can benefit your company. In this...
Storage Network Performance -- The Weakest Link by Storage Decisions
This presentation identifies just what aspects of performance are or are not critical to the successful deployment of these storage network technologies. People often point to performance as a major benefit of a Storage Network infrastructure. But performance means many things to many people in...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Phone Hardening-- Part I by Global Knowledge
the new system.

Unified Communications is not dedicated to its own cable infrastructure as the traditional PBX systems were, but rather uses a shared IP-based infrastructure. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) defines a way to carry voice calls over an IP network, including the digitization...
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Open System Authentication (OSA)
point.

If it is necessary to exchange encrypted data between a WEP network access point and a wireless-equipped computer, a stronger authentication process called Shared Key Authentication (SKA) is required.

Open System Authentication (OSA) is a process by which a computer can gain access to a wireless network that... More...
Sep 30, 2008
PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol)
and is expected to displace Cisco's proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP).

PEAP addresses the shortcomings of 802.11 security, shared key authentication being chief among these. Weaknesses in 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) allow an attacker to capture encrypted... More...

Jul 22, 2008
Mobile device security: Improving mobile authentication by Lisa Phifer
mobile devices can be locked by "something you have" (like a smart card) or "something you are" (a biometric).

For example, some mobile security products support public key authentication, based on a digital certificate stored on a removable media smart card (MMC, SD). This is strong because certificates are... More...

Dec 5, 2007
There's more to wireless security than encryption
for those beginning to consider the security of their wireless applications. The article gives an overview of four security components: encryption, authentication, digital signatures and public key infrastructure. You will also learn what to look for in a wireless application... More...
Dec 8, 2000