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Authorization: The right or permission to use a system resource; the process of granting access. See access control.; Full Authorization Definition >>

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Mitigation of SAP Authorization Risks: SAP ERP systems are the core of many medium and large businesses these days. These systems administer Finance, Payroll, Customer Relationship Management, Human Resources and so on. Control of these systems is handled by a concept called SAP Authorizations also referred to as authorizations or authorization objects. These authorizations establish...; Tags: Authorization, SAP AG, SECUDE, SAP ERP System; White papers 2009-10-02
MySpace suicide case: conviction overturned: bullyingIs it a crime to bully someone to a degree such that they commit suicide?; Tags: MySpace; Discussion threads 2009-08-31
Authenticating and authorizing the open source CMS MODx: In his book review of Packt Publishing's MODx Web Development, TechRepublic blogger Justin James notes that snippets are an aspect of MODx the author covered that was new to him. This sample book chapter about authentication and authorization covers snippets and more, including how to create Web users, how to...; Tags: Authorization, Open Source, Snippet, Authentication, Content Management System, Packt Publishing; Download resources 2009-05-04
Pace InterLok 5.7.1 (Mac): InterLok for Macintosh provides you, the software publisher, with a comprehensive tool set for customizable copy protection, license management, and license term enforcement. InterLok for Macintosh supports the latest versions of the Mac OS, and top software publishers use it. InterLok allows you to distribute your software with a variety...; Tags: Software, Authorization, Apple Macintosh, InterLok 5.7.1, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management; Software downloads 2008-12-23
Associating the Authentication and Connection-Establishment Phases in Passive Authorization Techniques: Port Knocking and Single Packet Authorization SPA are passive authorization techniques that provide firewall-level authentication to ensure authorized access to potentially vulnerable network services. Although these techniques serve as powerful protection mechanism against the intruders, they still suffer from a major problem. The lack of association between the authentication process...; Tags: Technique, Authorization, TCP, Authentication, Productivity, Tcp/Ip, Security, Networking; White papers 2008-07-04

Customer Support Improved Via Convenient Identification and Authorization of Avaya Technicians: A global leader in secure and reliable Internet Protocol telephony systems and communications software applications and services, Avaya, Inc. serves more than one million businesses. When the company embarked on the design of a new identification and authorization mechanism for its sizable technician workforce, critical success factors were to ensure...; Tags: Authorization, VeriSign Inc., Avaya Inc., Security; Case studies 2008-02-03
Data Record Extractor 1.0.5.1134 (Windows): Data Record Extractor is a smart utility designed to extract regular text to data records.. It supports updating the page number and replacing query parameter in the URL with database field value, quite suites for extracting record from dynamic Web pages, search results, text bits and more. Data Record Extractor...; Tags: Authorization, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Omitovo Software, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet; Software downloads 2008-01-22
Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in just-published Microsoft patent app: A major new Microsoft Patent application entitled DVD identification and managed copy authorization describes and illustrates a secure manner in which DVDs could be enabled for "ripping" of selected sections of media. In other words, and as Paragraph 44 of this app...; Tags: Consumer, Multimedia, Authorization, Activation, Content Provider, Client, Information, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Copy Service, Identification Response, FIG, Authorization Service, Method 1000, Method 1100, Method 1200, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-01-03
Software Activation and Return Merchandise Authorization for the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Series Switches: Cisco Catalyst 3750-E Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 3560-E Series Switches are enabled with Cisco IOS Software activation. This means there is an electronic license that confers certain entitlement to the product owner and enables select Cisco IOS Software functionality within the switch. If one of these switches is returned...; Tags: Authorization, Cisco Systems Inc., Software; White papers 2007-10-01
Meeting Security Requirements of Software as a Service (SaaS) Applications: Secure Authentication and Authorization With Multiple Tenants: The Software as a Service SaaS business model, driven by an effort to reduce IT cost and efforts, is garnering a lot of interest in the software industry. In this model, application functionality is delivered through a subscription model over the Internet. The business does not take ownership of the...; Tags: Tenant, Software, Security, Software-as-a-service, Authorization, Authentication, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Management; White papers 2007-09-25
Distributed Authorization Using Delegation With Acyclic Paths: This paper presents a new trust management scheme for distributed authorization which can be easily implemented using X.509-based certificate chains, but does not require globally unique role names. A principal proves that he has authorization for a particular action by demonstrating the existence of an acyclic chain of bindings from...; Tags: Authorization, Principal, Delegation; White papers 2007-09-10
MSDN Webcast: Authorization, Privilege, and Access Control in SQL Server 2005 (Level 300): Data security is a big topic, but it all boils down to one simple principle: least privilege. By the principle of least privilege, a user should only have direct access to the bare minimum of resources required to do whatever it is the user needs to do. Microsoft SQL Server...; Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Authorization, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Access Control, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Webcasts 2007-05-11
A Grid Authorization Model for Science Gateways: Since the number of TeraGrid Science Gateways is expected to grow at least an order of magnitude in the next few years, a lightweight gateway deployment model is sought, one that facilitates growth but meets the security requirements of the TeraGrid. This paper present a new authorization model for science...; Tags: University Of Illinois, Authorization, Middleware, Identity Federation; White papers 2007-04-11
Software Activation and Return Merchandise Authorization for the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E Series Switches and Catalyst 3560-E Series Switches: Cisco Catalyst 3750-E Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 3560-E Series Switches are enabled with Cisco IOS Software activation. This means there is an electronic license that confers certain entitlement to the product owner and enables select Cisco IOS Software functionality within the switch. If one of these switches is returned...; Tags: Authorization, Cisco Systems Inc., Software; White papers 2007-03-01
Demand for post-admission NAC grows: Demand for post-admission NAC growsNAC??One minus vote for unexplained acronym. Yeah, we're overloaded with 'em and need some relief. Thanks for helping.Once again...Application-level Identity Management [i]does not exists[/i].Again, unless you're referring to the application layer of the OSI network stack, which from this article it seems quite clear...; Tags: IdM, NAC, binary access, authorization; Discussion threads 2007-01-08
Demand for post-admission NAC grows: [Note: Eric is having trouble posting today, and I have posted this article for him. So "I" refers to Eric in this article. - Phil]Prior to the holidays, I had begun to dig into some new briefings around NAC. Specifically, I was looking to hear from Trusted Network Technologies and...; Tags: NAC, authorization, Identity Engines, identity, network; Blog posts 2007-01-08
Using Samba: Accounts, Authentication, and Authorization: Authentication is proving that the user is who he or she says they are. One does this every day, during such activities as printing a document or saving a file to a network drive. When things are working correctly, the steps taken by a server to authenticate a request are...; Tags: Authorization, Network, Samba, O'Reilly Media Inc., Authentication; Book chapters 2007-01-01
IBM Director Security Best Practices: Authorization: The IBM Director Application interfaces with the authorization model of the operating systems it is installed on, and it comes with its own application resource authorization architecture. There are best practices for creating optimal configurations for the environment, and manual changes to convert an Express configuration to a Standard configuration...; Tags: Authorization, IBM Director, Best Practice, IBM Corp.; White papers 2007-01-01
Does authorization equal entitlements?: Does authorization equal entitlements?A few points...First off, I'm glad to see you enlightened individuals come around. I've been in this specific space for close to 5 years, I've been trying to spread the light, but to little avail - good to see it getting some real traction.I used to claim...; Tags: Asset management, authorization, asset, security, perimeter; Discussion threads 2006-11-20
Does authorization equal entitlements?: Back in the early mists of identity time, "identity management" was referred to as "AAA" triple A -- authentication, access control and authorization. Over time, AAA evolved to mean authentication, authorization and acountability. Those were seen as the three large functional categories within what came to be called identity management....; Tags: General; Blog posts 2006-11-20