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Article: Building remote access security. (Technology Information)(Brief Article)
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- Network World
- Article date:
- March 23, 1998
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Since 1992, remote access network administration has evolved from completely distributed systems with little centralized administration capability to centralized server-managed systems.
The evolution in remote access management was primarily ]due to the invention of the Remote Access Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol by Steve Willens, then CEO of Livingston Enterprises, Inc.
RADIUS created a client/ server architecture that enabled the efficient authentication, authorization and session accounting (AAA) data for users of remote access networks.
Before RADIUS, user authentication information was stored on every remote access server (RAS) ...