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The evolution of MFA security tokens

David Strom

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The OAuth token is a new standard in authentication

Source: SafeNet

OAuth is the latest standard in authentication federation, whereby several different identity providers share the same authentication mechanisms. For example, third-party applications can request a user's identity from a Web service using an OAuth token. Several popular consumer-based sites support it, including Google, Facebook, Box, GitHub and Salesforce.

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