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Web Authentication Security

Author: Donna Selman Published April 10, 2011 from SANS

This document will cover four web authentication security techniques that are used by web server administrators to provide web browser clients access to the file systems on their host computers. These four authentication techniques are Basic Authentication, Digest Authentication, Database Authentication, Anonymous Authentication, and N-Tier Authentication. Because these four techniques are basic to security, they can, and often are, utilized on almost any web server.

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