Configuration Example, Security

Restore RSA 7.1 primary database and RADIUS config

René Jorissen on June 30, 2010 2 Comments • Tags: #configutil #database #instance #on-demand #primary #radius #replica #restore #rsa #rsautil

A few days ago I was troubleshooting a problem with an ISA array after upgrading the VMware environment as you can read in this article. I had a same kind of problem with a RSA environment. After upgrading the VMware Tools and the Virtual Hardware, the RSA database didn’t start anymore. RSA noticed to much … Read More

Security

RSA AM 7.1SP3 Token Delivery

René Jorissen on April 28, 2010 0 Comments • Tags: #agent #authenticate #automatically #deliver #delivery #on-demand #rsa #token

Using two-factor authentication is common when publishing remote services to the internet with components like Citrix NetScaler or Juniper SA appliances. RSA is a well-known provider of two-factor authentication mechanism. Beginning with RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 people have the ability to use the On-Demand feature. This feature enables the delivery of token codes via SMS … Read More

Security

User expiration with RSA AM 7.1

René Jorissen on April 8, 2010 1 Comment • Tags: #rsa

I noticed some differences in the user expiration between RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 and RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 SP2. When assigning a token to an user in RSA AM7.1, the user automatically gets an expiration date set on its user account. The default expiration date is one year. I cannot reproduce this same symptom with … Read More

Security

RSA 7.1 with On-Demand

René Jorissen on November 18, 2009 0 Comments • Tags: #35 #71 #clickatell #demand #email #ldap #mail #on #otp #policy #rsa #selfservice #sms #token #vmware

RSA token security provides a way to strengthen the security on public services. Token authentication is most often implemented with hardware tokens. RSA 7.1 has additional methods of token authentication besides the hardware tokens: Token delivery by SMS; Token delivery by e-mail; To enable the above features you have to install at least RSA 7.1 … Read More

Security

RSA 7.1 supported under ESX 3.5

René Jorissen on July 23, 2009 7 Comments • Tags: #35 #71 #esx #rsa #support #vmware

More and more people would like to implement OTP (One Time Password) solutions. RSA is one of multiple vendors for OTP solutions. I also notice the wish to implement and support OTP with on-demand tokens, like SMS and e-mail. RSA supports on-demand tokens, but the minimum RSA Authentication Manager version required is 7.1. Not only … Read More

Management, Security

RSA LDAP query failed

René Jorissen on January 9, 2009 0 Comments • Tags: #ldapsearchsearchfailedcheckbasedn #adfind #basedn #browser #filter #ldap #ldap_search_ssizelimitexceeded #maxpagesize #objectclass #query #rsa #sdaceldap #sdldapsync #securid #softerra

While configuring a LDAP mapping for a RSA Authentication Manager 6.1 with an Active Directory Domain Controller, I received the following error while running the Synchronisation task c:\RSA\prog\sdldapsync.exe -j 102 “[LDAP search] Search failed (check Base DN)” At first I thought about a typo while configuring the Synchronisation task. To test the LDAP connection with … Read More