Services being deployed include identity management, authentication authorization, business services, application services, and reporting services.

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Second is a vendor neutrality that can deftly neutralize any reluctant (or recalcitrant) healthcare IT vendor, and third is a rich history of domain expertise specifically around industrial-strength network security, identity management and authentication (at scale).

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In fact, the authentication techniques used to identity the king are similar to the identity-management techniques we apply in software and hardware to secure critical systems and applications.

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Nevertheless, of the ten workshops put on by the FTC last year identity theft, security, and authentication seem to not have been addressed, although a number of workshops dealt with issues of privacy broadly.

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Two-factor authentication requires you to confirm your identity with two separate things.

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