It is necessary to secure the authentication method to safeguard the system against varied forms of security threats like password cracking tools, brute-force or wordbook attacks, abuse of system access rights, impersonation of attested users, and reply attacks. Additionally, if there share resources on the network with alternative organization in which information is exchange.
Like most people who are computer users, you do not simply turn on your computer and start accessing programs. There are systems put in place by the user, or the administrator of the network to ensure that the properly authorized people gain access to their information. Specific profiles are created to differentiate amongst the users that allow each unique user to create, delete, and print or any other process they have access to. The process needs to be thoroughly planned out, and there also has to be a determination how whether it will be managed locally, or by third party software.
This management of access controls actually comes in four different steps. The steps are: Identification, Authentication, Authorization, and finally, Accountability (Whitman & Mattord, 2013). No administrator worth his salt will incorporate any sort of security authentication process without these four basic steps. A properly configure authentication process will protect your network from such threats as password cracking tools, brute force attacks, the abuse of system rights and outright impersonation of authenticated users.
Identification is the first of the four steps of the security process. Anyone that wishes to gain access to a system is referred to as a supplicant, and the tool that they use to gain entry to the system is referred to as an Identifier (Whitman & Mattord, 2013). This identifier can be a myriad of different references to uniquely identify the supplicant. The identifier should be able to