What type of security does Lucent Technologies PortMaster product family support?
Lucent Technologies PortMaster products use a number of advanced security features, including call-back, access filters for hosts and networks, packet filters and RADIUS. What is RADIUS? RADIUS, or Remote Authentication Dial-In User service, is a freely available distributed security system developed by Lucent Technologies InterNetworking Systems. Lucent has worked with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to define RADIUS as an interoperable method for distributed security on the Internet. RADIUS was designed based on a previous recommendation from the IETF’s Network Access Server Working Requirements Group. RADIUS is now an IETF-recognized dial-in security solution (RFC #2058). What is distributed security? Distributed security is a client/server approach that allows a number of communications servers, or clients, to authenticate a dial-in user’s identity through a single, central database, or Authentication Server, which stores all information about users, their passwords and
