Tuesday, February 13, 2018

RADIUS vs password for device authentcation

I want to change authentication access to my devices from password authentication to RADIUS but my boss wants a document outlining the pros and cons of using Windows NPS, if there are other software that can do it etc.

In a previous document I explained the good RADIUS would achieve like centralized authentication and accounting (seeing "last change to nvram done by Bob" for e.g) and I've only seen an old security advisory of a DoS vulnerability of NPS that was patched a good while ago.

So my questions are:

  • Are there any other security concerns involved in using Windows NPS?

  • Any other RADIUS server software and why NPS would be better?

  • More reasons why RADIUS is better than simple password auth?



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