Chapter 10
System Access
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!!”
—The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
Discuss the three general means of authenticating a user’s identity.
Explain the mechanism by which hashed passwords are used for user authentication.
Present an overview of password-based user authentication.
Present an overview of hardware token-based user authentication.
Present an overview of biometric user authentication.
Summarize some of the key security issues for user authentication.
Present an overview of system access best practices.
This chapter presents an overview of system access concepts, ...
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