OpenAthens has published a new white paper that discusses the complexities facing information professionals and publishers when ensuring the security of access and authentication processes.
The online information landscape is incredibly complex, with essential digital resources present in almost every industry – from academic to corporate research, healthcare to government. But where subscription-based content is available to the world at large, unscrupulous actors will invariably try to gain access through a variety of methods – anywhere from spoofing IP addresses to using social engineering techniques to obtain legitimate login details.
Available from the OpenAthens website, 'Approaches to authentication: the importance of information security', draws on experiences from across the information industry to highlight the key security issues around different authentication methods, and how SAML-based approaches can provide an improved user experience while keeping valuable data safe from unscrupulous actors.
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