Microsoft Windows provides some powerful management tools to help security everyone who is connected to a Windows Domain. In this video, you’ll learn about Group Policy and how security managers can use Group Policy to help tighten down their security posture.
The user role can be a useful criteria for security management. In this video, you’ll learn the best practices for role-based management and how shared accounts and credentials should be managed.
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Our networks rarely operate in a vacuum, and it becomes increasingly important that we provide the proper security posture to other parts of our network and to third-parties. In this video, you’ll learn how federation and transitive trust can give you more control over who goes out and who comes in.
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Providing a secure, single sign-on process is the goal of most network and application administrators. In this video, you’ll learn how single sign-on works and how it can be used to create a seamless authentication infrastructure for your user community.
The CHAP and PAP authentication protocols have been a mainstay of network computing. In this video, you’ll learn how PAP and CHAP operates over the network and some of the advantages and disadvantages of using these protocols for authentication.
A useful security authentication technique is the use of one-time passwords. In this video, you’ll learn how one-time passwords are implemented and the differences between the HOTP and TOTP algorithms.
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If you want to secure your authentication process, then you’ll probably implement some form of multi-factor authentication. In this video, you’ll learn how to secure your authentication by using something you are, something you have, something you know, something you are, and something you do.
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Most of our day-to-day authentication uses a single-factor to provide access. In this video, you’ll learn about the different factors of authentication and some of the challenges around using single-factor authentication.
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We use many different kinds of access control to secure our networks. In this video, you’ll learn about discretionary, role-based, and mandatory access control models.
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The foundation of access control is based on the three major tenants of identification, authentication, and authorization. In this video, you’ll learn how each of these is used to maintain the security of our networks.
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