Product guide

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Introduction
Protect your enterprise network data and resources against unauthorized access by integrating
McAfee
®
Enterprise Authentication (Enterprise Authentication) directly with your on-premise or
cloud-based environment.
Contents
About Enterprise Authentication
How authentication works
About Enterprise Authentication
Enterprise Authentication supports many strong authentication methods to ensure your network is
protected.
Today, simple passwords are no longer a secure solution for protecting your enterprise data and
resources such as networks, applications, and services. Enterprise Authentication combines multiple
authentication methods to securely authenticate users in your on-premise or cloud-based
environments.
Adding Enterprise Authentication helps you to avoid these potential high-risk issues:
• Unauthorized network access • Uncontrolled access to sensitive data
• Maintaining lists of long and complex
passwords
• Online identity theft
• Security attacks
How authentication works
Users initiate the authentication process when they request access to protected resources.
Figure 1-1 Authentication process
Enterprise Authentication receives authentication requests through these protocols:
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