Many incidents occur through access control and authentication vulnerabilities. Just consider the recently reported Fruit of a Loom incident that allowed easy access to 1,006 names and Social Security numbers of former employees. It is likely poorly constructed and inadequately tested applications controls resulted in this breach, not unlike so many other breaches that have occurred.
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Addressing Web-Based Access and Authentication Challenges
Friday, March 2nd, 2007HSPD-12 and U.S. Government Agency Authentication and Access Controls
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007Creating technologies that authenticate users with a high degree of confidence has always been a challenge, not only because of the typical complexity of the systems, but also because of the amount of confidence that must be placed within the end-user to appropriately secure his or her own user authentication information, most commonly the user ID and password.
Over the past several years the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified the historically poor authentication and access control practices as barriers for successful information sharing between not only government entities, but also with the private sector.
HSPD-12 and U.S. Government Agency Authentication and Access Controls
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007Creating technologies that authenticate users with a high degree of confidence has always been a challenge, not only because of the typical complexity of the systems, but also because of the amount of confidence that must be placed within the end-user to appropriately secure his or her own user authentication information, most commonly the user ID and password.
Over the past several years the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified the historically poor authentication and access control practices as barriers for successful information sharing between not only government entities, but also with the private sector.
