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Generally speaking, a complete DualShield platform consist of 3 tiers of components. Namely, the Authentication Server, the Authentication Agent and the Authentication Client.
Typically, the DualShield Authenticaiton Server is integrated with the customer's Active Directory
DualShield uses a SQL database as its data storage. By default, DualShield includes a instance of local MySQL server. Optionally, customers can opt out and use their own remote SQL server such as Microsoft SQL or Oracle.