What is certificate-based authentication? Certificate-based authentication is an authentication process in which public-key cryptography and digital certificates are used to authenticate an entity. As in this type of authentication process, an entity does not need to...
What is OpenID Connect? OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an authentication layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 framework. OAuth 2.0 is an authorization framework that enables a third-party application to access some part of a user’s account without having the password of the user....
What is OAuth 2? OAuth is an open standard using which a third-party application can gain access to some part of a user’s account. The service that provides access, does not need to provide the application the user’s password. Instead, the service can provide a secure...
Authentication using a password alone is not secure enough. If the password is weak or an attacker manages to steal the password, the attacker will be able to gain access to the account. One way to make the authentication process more secure is to use another factor...
What is password spraying? Password spraying is an attack in which an attacker uses a set of commonly used passwords to access a large number of accounts. The attack is perpetrated in such a way that the attacker evades account lockouts on the attempted user accounts....
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