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Cheat sheet: Access management solutions and their pros and cons


Joel Dubin
01.10.2006
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There are a number of different access management solutions available to security and IT managers these days, and the list keeps growing. The following is a cheat sheet of the most common solutions with a brief description, and their risks and pros and cons to help you choose the solution that is right


for your organization.

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About the author
Joel Dubin, CISSP, is an independent computer security consultant based in Chicago. He is an expert on Web and application security and the author of The Little Black Book of Computer Security available on Amazon.

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