Chapter 1. Who and What: AAA Basics
This chapter provides an overview of authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA), enabling you to understand the fundamentals of the AAA security concept, and compares and contrasts the most common types of AAA.
Fundamentals of AAA
In the world of security, we can only be as secure as our controls permit us to be. There are laws in the United States defining what a passenger of an airplane is permitted to bring onboard. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the enforcement body charged with travel security and enforcing those laws. If the TSA agents weren’t operating the metal detectors and X-ray machines (and all the other things that slow us down when trying to reach our airplanes), ...
Get Integrated Security Technologies and Solutions - Volume II: Cisco Security Solutions for Network Access Control, Segmentation, Context Sharing, Secure Connectivity and Virtualization, First Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
