Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Authentication: MXI Security's Stealth MXP"
This article is part of the October 2006 issue of Security 7 Award winners: Simply the best
AUTHENTICATION Stealth MXP REVIEWED BY MIKE CHAPPLE MXI Security Price: $259.99 for a 128MB device @exb @exe MXI Security's Stealth MXP token combines a three-factor remote authentication solution along with two-factor portable encrypted storage in a single device. Authentication to remote services using the device depends upon three factors: something you have (the token), something you know (a password) and something you are (your fingerprint). Accessing the device's encrypted storage combines biometric and password authentication. Combining these technologies reduces the cost and management of strong security and means one fewer security device users carry in their pockets. Policy Control C The device's policy control is limited to the administrator's ability to assign users to individual private storage partitions and resize those partitions. We gave the device a lower grade here because it doesn't provide a native key escrow/backup solution (MXI suggests that you create your own using their SDK), and the use of symmetric cryptography prevents users from... Access >>>
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Simply the Best: Security 7 Awards 2006
by Information Security magazine staff
Information Security's 2006 Security 7 Awards honor innovative security professionals in seven vertical markets.
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Risk Management: ClearPoint Metrics' Metrics Accelerator 1.1
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Imprivata's OneSign ENA product review
Product review of Imprivata's OneSign ENA cost effective network authentication tool, which manages USB tokens, smartcards, OTPs and fingerprint biometrics.
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Authentication: MXI Security's Stealth MXP
MXI Security's Stealth MXP
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That Sinking Feeling
DATA PROTECTION
Before you lose something precious, govern your data.
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Simply the Best: Security 7 Awards 2006
by Information Security magazine staff
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- At Your Service: October 2006 managed services security news
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Recent releases: Security product briefs, October 2006
Read about the recently released security products of October 2006.
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Secure Reads: Spam kings
Read a quick review of the book "S*PAM KiNgs: The Real Story Behind The High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills and @*#?% Enlargements."
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Antimalware/Client Firewall
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Layer 8: Measuring information security success
Clarity or Conspiracy?
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Ping: Suzanne Hall
Suzanne Hall
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Editor's Desk: Saluting security's superstars
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Perspectives: Security must be one with business goals
Information security can no longer pit itself against ease of use and business objectives.
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Layer 8: Measuring information security success
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