Preface

The Master thesis work will study and propose how workstation identity management can be made more user-friendly and secure by using the mobile phone in the Linux workstation log on process. The current log on process is neither user friendly nor sufficiently secure. This work consists of the following tasks: 1. Study of existing identity management and authentication for enterprise network and workstations. 2. Study of Platform security architecture of Linux. 3. Study of Authentication and identity management standards and protocols (e.g. EAP, RADIUS/ DIAMETER, SAML etc.) 4. Design and implementations of solutions for integration of the mobile phone with the workstation logon processes in different operating systems 5. Threat and vulnerability analysis of proposed solution(s)