Endpoint: Security Validation and Authentication Failures
Counter name: Security Validation and Authentication Failures
Description
This counter is incremented whenever a message is rejected due to a security problem not covered by the "Security Calls Not Authorized" counter. Such problems include:
Client token cannot be read from the message.
Client token has failed authentication (e.g., bad password).
Signature verification has failed (e.g., the message has been tampered).
The message is a duplicate from a previous one, which can happen during a replay attack.
A decryption failure has occurred.
Some required elements (e.g., missing timestamp or encrypted data block) are missing from the message.
Errors have occurred during TLSNEGO/SPNEGO handshake.
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Last Published: 2010-03-21