The Web has become criminals’ preferred pathway for spreading malware. Cybercrime carried out on the Web can include identity theft, fraud, espionage, and intelligence gathering on your organization. Web-based vulnerabilities now outnumber traditional computer security concerns, and, as measured by Google, about one in ten Web pages may contain malicious code.

Asset Tracking Anywhere’s (ATA’s) physical security is augmented by security-centric software architecture, constant monitoring, and communication protocols. Examples of communication protocols include ATA’s use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which are cryptographic protocols that provide security services like confidentiality and integrity to TCP/IP networks such as the Internet.

ATA’s TLS protocol allows applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery. TLS provides endpoint authentication and communications confidentiality over the Internet using cryptography.

Typically, only the server is authenticated (i.e., its identity is ensured) while the client remains unauthenticated; this means that the end user (whether an individual or an application, such as a Web browser) can be sure with whom it is communicating.

The next level of security — in which both ends of the “conversation” are sure with whom they are communicating — is known as mutual authentication. ATA provides mutual authentication by identification of the user during login and tracking credentials provided by the user. Simultaneous tracking of user IP, DNS, duration and changes also occurs.