Don’t Neglect the Fundamentals of Identity Management

Paul Hill is a Senior Consultant with SystemExperts. Previously, he worked in the IT Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he played a leadership role in the evolution of identity services. He is recognized as one of the industry’s foremost experts in Microsoft technology, was involved in the creation of the Kerberos Consortium and played a leading role in the development of Internet2 specifications.

UnboundID: Why was Kerberos created and what has been its impact on the IT security industry in the last few years?

Hill: The primary motivation was that it was an academic environment, and you can’t always control who is on the network, so MIT needed a security protocol that could protect the network from hostile eavesdroppers. Today, Kerberos is widely adopted across the country as a standard authentication system, it’s even used in cable TV modems.

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