Network Level Authentication

Network Level Authentication is a technology used in Remote Desktop Services (RDP Server) or Remote Desktop Connection (RDP Client) that requires the connecting user to authenticate themselves before a session is established with the server. Originally, if you opened an RDP (remote desktop) session to a server it would load the login screen from the server for you. This would use up resources on the server, and was a potential area for denial of service attacks. NLA delegates the user's credentials from the client through a client side Security Support Provider and prompts the user to authenticate before establishing a session on the server.

Network Level Authentication

Network Level Authentication is a technology used in Remote Desktop Services (RDP Server) or Remote Desktop Connection (RDP Client) that requires the connecting user to authenticate themselves before a session is established with the server. Originally, if you opened an RDP (remote desktop) session to a server it would load the login screen from the server for you. This would use up resources on the server, and was a potential area for denial of service attacks. NLA delegates the user's credentials from the client through a client side Security Support Provider and prompts the user to authenticate before establishing a session on the server.