Designing your network for fail-over An essential part of good network design is to plan for failures. In a RADIUS ecosystem, one major requirement is that clients can always connect to a RADIUS server, and that the system can continue t... Network Security Best Practices
The problem with RADIUS in the cloud The promise of cloud-hosted infrastructure sounds tempting. Someone else manages yourdatabase, you pay only for what you need, you may have better data security, and the database can scale up with you... Network Security Best Practices
RADIUS design for internet service providers (ISPs) More than almost any other business, internet service providers (ISPs) need to provide their customers with fast, reliable internet connection to their computer network. Any downtime can be catastroph... Network Security Best Practices
Separating Authentication from your RADIUS Accounting server Many ISP networks and enterprise environments handle both Authentication and Accounting functions through the same RADIUS servers anddatabases. While this configuration works well for small and low-lo... Network Security Best Practices Network Security Protocols
Client Case Study: Slow network performance When the pandemic hit, thousands of employees suddenly needed remote access overnight. This aerospace company's "simple" Python-based authentication system became their biggest business threat—until o... Network Security Best Practices
Client Case Study: RADIUS proxy consolidation for efficiency When an ISP is running a large number of systems at 99% idle capacity "just in case," you know there's room for optimization. We worked with a multi-service provider that had built four separate RADIU... Network Security Best Practices
Client Case Study: Slow SQL server performance When a major ISPs RADIUS database slowed to a crawl under growing data loads, we restored full performance without replacing a single system. Here's how proper database architecture beat a hardware up... Network Security Best Practices
Client Case Study: RADIUS SQL We were called in to help our client who had database performance issues with their custom schema and queries. We made updates to the database tables and indices and reconfigured the RADIUS server app... Network Security Best Practices
Building RADIUS high availability systems that eliminate network downtime Enterprise networks require authentication systems that never fail. Here's how to build RADIUS high availability architecture that delivers true network reliability. When network authentication goes d... Network Security Best Practices
RADIUS Server Proxying We have extensive experience in the WiFi roaming arena, and we are actively involved in vendor forums. Proxying is a key part of most RADIUS infrastructures. We foster relationships with numerous comp... Network Security Best Practices
User Authentication Performance The current Covid-19 crisis has created an unprecedented situation for businesses. More people are working remotely than ever before, in order to maintain corporate productivity in the face of this cr... Network Security Best Practices