Cerberus, aka Kerberos to the Greeks, outside the entrance to the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. (Copyright free image from Wikipedia entry for Cerberus/Kerberos)
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If you use, or have been curious about using the XenApp and XenDesktop monitoring probes for your Citrix environment, check out the optional Kerberos authentication for Windows or Linux systems.
Kerberos was developed by MIT to protect the network service portion of Project Athena, a collaborative project to create a campus-wide distributed computing environment. Kerberos uses “tickets” to allow client and server side nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity.
Kerberos was named after the three-headed guard dog of the underworld in Greek mythology. So, you won’t be surprised to learn that Kerberos authenticated messages are powerfully secure.
In fact, Kerberos was once classified by the US as auxiliary military technology and banned from export until the year 2000. A Swedish implementation of Kerberos, based on MIT’s eBones version 4, patch-level 9KTH-KRB, was developed at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden; it was legally available prior to 2000 in Europe only because it didn’t use certain encryption functions and calls that have since been reintegrated into the protocol.
To learn how to configure Kerberos authentication on the XenApp or XenDesktop probes, and to learn more about how you can use any of the Nimsoft monitoring probes to help make your network more secure, see the probe guides at docs.nimsoft.com.
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