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Mobile Apps: Authentication?
From: Martin Manjak <mm376 () ALBANY EDU>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:04:12 -0400
As the great mobile migration accelerates, I wonder if anyone has deployed an app that has an authentication component. I know certain schools have developed (or bought?) custom apps for their campuses that provide maps, dining hall menus, etc. I writing to the list to see if anyone has developed/deployed/purchased a mobile app that integrates into a CMS, for example. Or any IT service that requires authentication. I realize that people can use the mobile phone browser to submit credentials via the traditional portal or web-based authentication methods. I don't think the security issues in those cases are any different from using a laptop. But it would be interesting to see if anyone has written a native app for a mobile platform that addresses the authentication process. Marty -- Martin Manjak Information Security Officer University at Albany CISSP, GSEC, GCWN "What information consumes...is the attention of its recipients." Herbert Simon, 1971
Current thread:
- Mobile Apps: Authentication? Martin Manjak (Mar 15)
- Re: Mobile Apps: Authentication? Theresa Rowe (Mar 15)
- Re: Mobile Apps: Authentication? Kevin Shalla (Mar 15)
- Re: Mobile Apps: Authentication? Valdis Kletnieks (Mar 15)
- Re: Mobile Apps: Authentication? Kevin Shalla (Mar 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Mobile Apps: Authentication? Bob Doyle (Mar 21)
- Re: Mobile Apps: Authentication? Theresa Rowe (Mar 15)