Second Edition of TechLetter "Standardized User Authentication" released

s+c released the second edition of the TechLetter „Standardized User Authentication„. It deals with the subject

What to do when all hell breaks loose? - Detect, Confine and Eliminate Security Risks in Kerberos environments

Summary:
The headline-making vulnerability in the Debian version of OpenSSL not only discovered neglectfulness of distributors and developers. Clearly as hardly ever, these events revealed insufficient protection of many environments against security system failure or circumvention. Where are the vulnerable spots? How can the intrusion be confined? And: What to do, if sensitive data probably fall into wrong hands? Anyone who handles security relevant data should have ready the suitable answers on these questions. The second edition of the TechLetter deals with the most important scenarios of SSL secured services, PGP and Kerberos environments.

The TechLetter is a free info service by science + computing ag. Read news, know-hows and further interesting information about the subject „Standardized User Authentication„. TechLetter is released every two months and respectively deals in depth with one technical problem.

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