Definitions

Authentication Rentention mechanisms allow a Vital Security Appliance to temporarily cache a user's name. This means that the user does not need to reauthenticate with each transaction, thereby improving performance.

Terminal servers are powerful computers that host multiple interactive sessions from different users simultaneously. Many organizations use Windows-based terminal server solutions, such as Microsoft's Terminal Services and similar offerings from Citrix. With these solutions, several users can simultaneously run individual Windows sessions on the same server. The applications within these sessions run on the server itself, rather than on the user's own client PC.

Answer Explanation

It is possible to use the Cookie authentication retention mechanism in terminal server environments. This method sends a temporary identification cookie to the browser, which works well on a multi-session system because cookies are not shared between sessions from different users.