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Certificate-Based Authentication: A Homeland Security Imperative
Overview To strengthen security measures used by all federal agencies, President Bush issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), which requires a common form of identification be issued to all federal employees and contractors. To comply with the new regulation, simple passwords - easily hacked, often forgotten and a chronic IT headache - are being replaced by multi-factor authentication processes using various combinations of identification technologies. This explains why the Department of Defense, for example, is using smart cards and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to address the need for stronger authentication.
| Publisher | Novell | File Format | |
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| Date Published | May 2005 | Downloads | 113 |
| Format | White Papers | ||
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