APconnections offers Radius authentication

APconnections, which provides plug-and-play bandwidth shaping products, has made available 'remote authentication dial-in user service' (Radius) authentication through its NetEqualizer network access control (NAC) module, reports TMCnet.

Radius is a client/server protocol and software that enables remote access servers to communicate with a central server to authenticate dial-in users and authorise their access to the requested system or service, according to SearchSecurity.com.

Radius allows a company to maintain user profiles in a central database that can be shared by remote servers.

Risks from those with legitimate access inside the corporate firewall have come under major scrutiny in the past few years, and the danger isn't simply in the minds of paranoid security officers: Business partners are more than twice as likely as employees to be the source of a security breach, states Dark Reading.

According to a newly published report from Dark Reading, 'Inside Out: Protecting your partnerships - and your data,' training users is the most important way to protect the corporate network, and assessing the severity of the threat and developing a strategy for partner security are some of the steps in safe e-commerce.

The report also takes a close look at NAC and encryption as tactical tools in the fight to maintain data integrity.

American Systems, an IT solutions provider, has standardised on CounterAct for network visibility and access control across its enterprise, according to SecurityPark.

American Systems provides consulting services and IT support for federal government initiatives surrounding command, control, communications, intelligence, readiness, surveillance and national security.

“Protecting US federal infrastructure as a national security priority will soon become the corporate mandate of federal contractors nationwide,” says Brian Neely, CTO at American Systems.