Who You AreEach person has unique physical characteristics, such as a fingerprint, retina pattern, or voice print. These personal biometric characteristics uniquely identify a specific person. Biometric security compares physical characteristics against stored profiles to authenticate users. In this case, a profile is a data file containing known characteristics of an individual. The system grants…

Federated Identity Management (39.2.6) Federated identity management (FIM) refers to multiple enterprises that let their users use the same identification credentials to gain access to the networks of all enterprises in the group. While FIM provides convenience to users and administrators, if the system is exploited by hackers, they will have access to many systems…

Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) (39.2.4)Let’s look into administrative access controls in more detail.The concept of administrative access controls involves three security services: authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA).These services provide the primary framework to control access, preventing unauthorized access to a computer, network, database, or other data resource. AuthenticationThe first A in AAA represents authentication….

Ensuring Availability (39.1.7)There are many measures that organizations can implement to ensure the availability of their services and systems, as shown in Table 39-2. Table 39-2 Examples of Ensuring Availability Check Your Understanding—Security Foundations (39.1.8)Refer to the online course to complete this activity. Access Control (39.2)An essential goal of network security is controlling access to…

Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (39.1.2) It is true that the list of network attack types is long. But there are many best practices that you can use to defend your network, as you will learn in this chapter. Network security consists of protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or…