COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
TYPES OF NETWORK SECURITY
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The authenticator is the service that issues certificates to clients attempting to connect to the network.
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The authenticator is the service that verifies the credentials of the client attempting to access the network.
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The authenticator is the network device to which the client is attempting to connect.
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The authenticator is the client user or computer attempting to connect to the network.
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Detailed explanation-1: -An 802.1X network is different from home networks in one major way; it has an authentication server called a RADIUS Server.
Detailed explanation-2: -802.1x uses EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) to facilitate communication from the supplicant to the authenticator and from the authenticator to the authentication server. EAP supports various authentication methods.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the most common authentication methods used to send client information over-the-air via 802.1X is the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).
Detailed explanation-4: -Components of 802.1X authentication While the term supplicant can be referring to the client device, or the software running on that device (the term is used interchangeably), the supplicant always is the device that is requesting to be authenticated.