By www.cialfor.com (Brand Owned by Bluest Mettle Solutions Pvt. Ltd) The rapid increase in mobile computing devices, removable storage media, hardware tokens and Internet of Things (IOT) has given multiple ways for cyber attackers by attempting to gain access to user credentials, personally identifiable information (PII), Intellectual property, and other high value data- to say none of the opportunities to use endpoint devices for gaining unauthorized entry to networks for any number of purposes. A technological response to this challenge comes in form of hardware authentication, whereas unique identifiers may have coded into a hardware itself, which in turn each device gives its own digital fingerprint. Chipsets and Firmware may also have security mechanisms automatically built in, which enables a device to be used as a part of a multi-factor authentication process. For example, a smartphone device or a smart token holder might requires providing their credentials and the...