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Secure SSL VPN Using OTPs And Mutual Authentication Against Attacks

"SSL-based VPNs were designed to eliminate the need for complex configurations on the user's PC." Thanks to WIFI networks it take a little more to secure your VPN. Mutual authentication can help by validating a user to a site and the site is validated to the user. Why do this? Because this will protect against the man-in-the-middle attack. Is is the only way or is there other ways like using a LDAP server to preform the same thing. . SSL-based VPNs were designed to eliminate the need for complex configurations on the user's PC. Unfortunately, that was before the dangers of public WiFi networks and tougher regulatory requirements came into being. Thanks to WiFi, many attacks that were difficult are now quite simple. In particular, a man-in-the-middle attack can intercept SSL-encrypted traffic, rendering SSL-based VPNs useless - even if it's protected by a typical one-time password system. The man-in-the-middle can easily feed the one-time password into the SSL-based VPN within the alloted time. The link for this article located at HowToForge is no longer available. . Fortify your SSL VPN using dual authentication and ephemeral passcodes to safeguard against session hijacking threats.. SSL VPN, Mutual Authentication, One-Time Passcodes, Network Protection. . Bill Locke

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Enhancing Online Banking Security With Mutual Authentication Techniques

The best way to protect online users of banking services against an ever-growing variety of threats is with an effective, efficient multi-layered security environment that utilizes a mutual authentication model. This Best Practices approach enables the 'User' to authenticate the bank site and the bank to authenticate the user. . Until now, a true, reciprocal, mutual authentication model simply was not possible. Why? Because there was no technology in place that enabled the User to authenticate the bank site with Internet-based trust indicators (e.g. SSL padlock) without falling prey to Internet spoofing or Man-in-the-Middle attacks. Thus, while numerous solutions exists for the bank to authenticate the User (e.g. 2 factor solutions such as tokens or biometrics) none can achieve a best practices mutual authentication model without addressing the lack of User authentication of the bank. The link for this article located at Info Sec Writers is no longer available. . Until now, a true, reciprocal, mutual authentication model simply was not possible. Why? Because the. protect, online, users, banking, services, against, ever-growing, variety, threats. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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