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RSA Authentication Manager Express Offers Proven Multi-factor Security in Convenient Solution Optimized for Smaller Enterprises
January 2011 by Marc Jacob
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announced RSA® Authentication Manager Express, its newest strong authentication solution designed to meet the cost and convenience requirements of small- to mid-sized organizations. The same risk-based RSA technology used to protect millions of online transactions every day and more than 250 million identities worldwide is being made available in a package that businesses of any size can use.
Today’s organizations are faced with the challenges of an increasingly mobile workforce, stricter regulations, and advanced threats that target sensitive information and intellectual property. Both industry researchers and real-world security breach events have demonstrated for years that weak, password-only protection is no match for savvy cybercriminals, and no longer is considered an effective method of preventing unauthorized users from accessing company resources.
RSA Authentication Manager Express is a risk-based and on-demand authentication system designed for organizations to provide up to 2,500 end users with secure access to data and business applications through SSL VPNs and online portals. The system employs an intelligent risk engine engineered to provide invisible, behind-the-scenes protection of web-based resources against unauthorized access. Users continue to employ their standard username and password. Security is stepped up when the risk engine detects abnormal behavior, requiring users to correctly answer personal challenge questions and/or enter SMS- or email-delivered one-time passcodes before access is granted.
Easy Transition from Password-only to Strong Authentication
RSA Authentication Manager Express helps organizations ensure the highest confidence that only approved users are accessing data and applications without inconveniencing them. The solution offers an easy way for organizations – including those that have never deployed authentication in their environments – to implement a stronger and more secure alternative to password-only protection within a solution that is easily installed and requires near zero ongoing management.
Additional benefits:
• Proven technology that can be tailored to an organization’s resource constraints, risk tolerance, and the profile of its users
• Layered approach for added strength of security; is invisible to end-users unless authentication is outside of established policy
• Nothing for end-users to manage making it ideal for employee, partner and client/customer use cases; SMS-delivered passcodes support any mobile phone and carrier
• Seamless integration with leading SSL VPNs and Web Servers requiring minimal IT resources
• Audit capabilities help organizations track what users are accessing to meet changing compliance regulations; canned reports help simplify proving compliance
RSA Authentication Manager Express will be generally available in Q1 2011 through authorized RSA resellers.
