Strong Authentication For A Windows Logon

["Alan Blackwell" <blackwellalan () hotmail com>]

Hi,

The engineers where I work need to use a laptop with special applications on 
it to help them maintain some plant machinery. This laptop will be a Windows 
2000 laptop that will log into the new Active Directory enabled Domain that 
is being setup. For various reasons we need very strong control of who logs 
onto this laptop and when.

The current idea is to use strong authentication on the Windows logon that 
the laptop user will use. The idea is to issue a SecurID token to an 
appropriate senior engineer who needs to authorise any changes to the plant 
machinery. By using the token as part of the laptop's windows logon we can 
ensure that whichever engineer has the laptop out needs to call the senior 
engineer during the logon process. If they don't they can't logon as they 
won't have the passcode.

Can anyone answer the following:

Do SecurID tokens work with Windows logons in this way, if so how do you set 
it up?

If SecurID tokens don't work in this way are there any other strong 
authentication solutions for Windows that anyone cares to recommend? I would 
prefer something similar to the above where a passcode from a token is 
required if possible.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Alan

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