MS-CHAP is dead MS-CHAP has been in use since 1998. It was Microsoft's answer to the challenge of authenticating users over networks, built into every version of Windows and deeply embedded in VPN and Wi-Fi infrastru... Network Security Best Practices Network Security Protocols
Build what you need Your authentication system goes down because the licensing server is unreachable. This happens more than you'd think. ByAlan DeKok, CEO, InkBridge Networks Your authentication server goes down during ... Network Security Best Practices Network Security Protocols
Enterprise Wi-Fi standards and authentication From Paris to Amsterdam, we spent October at the forefront of enterprise Wi-Fi standards development - here's what carriers and enterprises need to know about the future of network authentication. T... Industry Insights and Trends Network Security Protocols
The RADIUS protocol: How it works and why it's secure Learn how security-by-design improvements have transformed RADIUS into a more secure protocol than the expensive platforms built on top of it. “Is RADIUS secure?” is one of the most common questions n... Network Security Best Practices Network Security Protocols
30-year RADIUS design flaw fixed at the IETF Montreal 124 hackathon For the past 30 years, RADIUS has had a fundamental problem: in some cases, servers must discard well-formed, authentic packets from known clients. When something goes wrong in a multi-hop proxy envir...
It’s Finally Time to Replace NTLM With Microsoft deprecating MS-CHAP and NTLM, it’s time for enterprise networks to switch to a more secure authentication method: TTLS. Microsoft is finally deprecating its 30-year-old MS-CHAP and NTLM... Network Security Protocols
Steel-Belted RADIUS server end-of-life: What you need to know now Learn why Steel-Belted RADIUS server's end-of-life status puts your network at risk and how to plan your migration to a secure, future-proof authentication solution. If you're still running Steel-Belt... Network Security Best Practices Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
We toppled a $500 million industry with free software Why your "enterprise-grade" million-dollar solution is getting outmaneuvered by free software running on commodity hardware by Alan DeKok, CEO Twenty-five years ago, I started building FreeRADIUS in m... Network Security Best Practices Network Security Protocols
Don’t "set it and forget it" So you decided that whatever you were using for network security wasn’t getting the job done… either it didn’t scale with the growth in your user base, devices, or network design, or it was hindering ... Network Security Best Practices
Designing your network for fail-over An essential part of good network design is to plan for failures. In a RADIUS ecosystem, one major requirement is that clients can always connect to a RADIUS server, and that the system can continue t... Network Security Best Practices
Enterprise ransomware prevention starts with network authentication When properly implemented, network authentication can serve as a powerful barrier against ransomware attacks, stopping bad actors before they gain the initial foothold they need. In 2024, the number o... Network Security Best Practices Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
Disaster-proof your network critical infrastructure If you live in an earthquake zone, it’s important to engineer buildings to survive an earthquake. You don’t know when an earthquake will happen, or where exactly, or how big it’s going to be, but you ... Network Security Best Practices