Overview The rest of this cluster asks how you verify a vendor’s reliability claims. This article flips the direction: once your authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) platform is reliable, how do you prove it to the regulator who sets the penalties and the enterprise customer who decides whether to renew? Regulators generally want compliance-format reporting: […]

A multi-site AAA server deployment only survives a site loss if five things are executed, not assumed: subscriber and session state replicated across sites in real time and asynchronously to the auth path; every request routed to the nearest healthy site with NAS (network access server) timers set from measured latency; failover drills that isolate […]

Overview Credential stuffing replays leaked username/password pairs across thousands of subscriber accounts, one or two tries each. Per-account lockout never trips, so the attack looks like background noise until the takeovers start. On a broadband network the login surfaces are RADIUS-backed PPPoE and hotspot authentication, carrier Wi-Fi portals, and self-care accounts. All of them terminate […]