Authentication Overview
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Authentication serves a vital function within any organization -securing access to corporate networks, protecting the identities of users, and ensuring that a user is who he claims to be. Yet the recent surge in high-profile security breaches, as well as evolving business environments that require entirely new considerations for access control - like SaaS applications and mobile device management - represents a shift in how trust and control is established and maintained.
New threats, risks, and vulnerabilities as well as evolving business requirements underscore to the need for a strong authentication approach based on control, choice, and future-forward scalability.
Today, organizations are asking:
Who controls my token data?
How do I map authentication methods to business risk and the needs of my users?
Can I centrally manage, control and administer from one platform?
Am I set up to evolve to address new demands of my business - like Cloud and mobile devices?
How can I incorporate additional security layers, to help me further fortify against threats?
And how do I keep it all practical, and cost-effective?
More than ever, customers are looking for authentication software that delivers more - more strength, control, and choice. Read on to find out how a Fully Trusted Authentication Environment can deliver just that.
Strengthen Your Authentication with Superior Trust and Control
SafeNet's multi-factor authentication software delivers the protection you expect, while enabling customers with broader choice, improved visibility, and the ability to expand into the future. We do this through our Fully Trusted Authentication Environment, which means that you have:
Better self-control of your data - SafeNet enables customers with the option to create and control their own token data, so there is no reliance on a third-party vendor
Improved management and visibility - SafeNet's solutions deliver single-server management, providing full control, simple administration, and reduced cost and staff burden
Expanded options - SafeNet delivers the broadest choice when it comes to authentication methods - so you can meet the needs of any user and any risk level (hardware or software, certificate-based authentication or traditional one-time-password, on-premise, or into the cloud)
Future-ready - with new solutions that deliver strong authentication and SSO for cloud applications as well as credentialing for mobile device management
Painless migrations - SafeNet offers two complete authentication migration bundles that include unique brokering functionality, which alleviates typical migration concerns and headaches.
Your Easy Path to Migration
SafeNet simplifies the migration process by offering bundled migration packages that enable organizations of any size to seamlessly transition to the Fully Trusted Authentication Environment. These bundles include a unique brokering functionality, which enables two solutions to coexist "side by side" during migration, ensuring continuity and streamlining the deployment process. Learn More
Multi-Factor Authentication Products
The SAM Authentication Migration Bundle
A robust authentication platform for customers considering their evolving and expanding business needs and requirements, SafeNet Authentication Manager supports any of our authenticators and any authentication method through a single-server management platform, and supports authentication and SSO for cloud applications and mobile device credentialing and management.
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Safeword 2008 Migration Bundle
The option for those wanting to quickly and effortlessly deploy SafeNet's Fully Trusted Authentication. SafeWord 2008 features seamless integration for Active Directory, offers multiple APIs for leading VPN platforms, delivers a choice of One-Time-Password (OTP) authenticators, and supports authentication and SSO for cloud applications. Learn More.
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Authentication serves a vital function within any organization -securing access to corporate networks, protecting the identities of users, and ensuring that a user is who he claims to be. Yet the recent surge in high-profile security breaches, as well as evolving business environments that require entirely new considerations for access control - like SaaS applications and mobile device management - represents a shift in how trust and control is established and maintained.
An increasingly mobile workforce, the proliferation of mobile devices used by employees to access corporate resources, and the move to the cloud are blurring the boundaries of the traditional network security perimeter.
view solution detailsIn the current decentralized IT environment, the organizational VPN is just one of several end points used to access confidential network resources and critical business applications. Increasingly, organizations are deploying core business applications and sensitive resources across a greater number of web-based, cloud-based and on premise servers and are having difficulty creating consistent authentication policies for secure access to all corporate resources.
view solution detailsThe growth in the use of virtualized environments—particularly Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions, such as those provided by Citrix— is challenging businesses to overcome the vulnerabilities of fixed passwords and implement a consistent authentication policy to secure access to all online corporate resources.
view solution detailsAs enterprises transition to the cloud, they are essentially shifting their focus from controlling security with physical boundaries, to that of a virtual infrastructure. When data and applications move to the cloud, user access - by default - takes place remotely. Organizations therefore have to contend with a diffused data perimeter which induces them to implement access controls for applications both in the cloud and those within the confi nes of the data center.
view solution detailsIncreasingly, online financial services are under attack. Financial services institutions and their onlinebanking customers face a rapidly escalating threat landscape in which malware attacks and data breaches are commonplace.
view solution detailsThere is growing concern among IT leaders over the rise in corporate espionage and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) that originate from unauthorized local network access. Relying on simple passwords to protect employees’ computers and privileged workstations could put your organization at risk.
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Authentication serves a vital function within any organization -securing access to corporate networks, protecting the identities of users, and ensuring that a user is who he claims to be. Yet the recent surge in high-profile security breaches, as well as evolving business environments that require entirely new considerations for access control - like SaaS applications and mobile device management - represents a shift in how trust and control is established and maintained.
The Magic Quadrant for User Authentication depicts Gartner's independent analysis of authentication vendors in the marketplace. Positioning within the quadrant is based on an organization's ability to execute and completeness of vision. Gartner has positioned SafeNet in the leaders quadrant.
A significant number of high profile security breaches have occurred recently, bringing the organizations affected to the front pages of the business press. These events have had a negative impact on the public image of these companies, and may also have a harmful effect on their business. These incidents have caused the CIOs of many companies to reevaluate their info-security strategy in general, while also placing specific focus on their user authentication and transaction security requirements.
In today’s environment, the need for organizations to enable secure remote access to corporate networks, enhance their online services, and open new opportunities for e-commerce is bringing ever-growing attention to the importance of securing user access and validating identities. In addition, the recent barrage of identity theft and corporate fraud cases has brought corporate responsibility and the protection of sensitive data to the spotlight.
When the news broke that RSA had been breached, there was a lot of whispering in the corridors about how terrible this must have been for them. For sure, there have been plenty of breaches recently, and this highlighted that no network is impenetrable anymore.
When organizations look back on 2011, it will be remembered as a time of rapid change regarding security best practices. Highly visible security breaches and their subsequent impact in almost every industry have changed the way companies are thinking about and implementing security measures.
Whether IT organizations choose to embrace, resist, or deny them, the reality is that the increased prevalence of mobile devices in the enterprise presents a range of fundamental implications. This paper examines the paradigm shifts taking place in enterprise IT organizations today, and then focuses on the key implications the proliferation of mobile devices has for mobile authentication. The paper then uncovers some of the key strategies for making mobile authentication work effectively and securely in today's IT environments.
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