Authentication solutions

Overview

Authentication is a vital part of allowing access to many different applications, systems or services and in fact pretty much anything we access requires some sort of authentication,. That said a static user name and password is not enough as this could be compromised via methods such as shoulder surfing, key logging software and network sniffing techniques in both the wired and wireless environments and therefore using a technology that provides a stronger authentication mechanism is required.  This is also useful in environments where there are shared computer resources.

There are many approaches that can help an organisation business with their authentication concerns with multi-factor being one of them,  2 factor authentication (2FA), which can be implemented in multiple ways using software and hardware tokens, (One Time Passcode) (OTP) SMS and out of band delivery methods.

Market Trends

Traditionally when businesses have thought about a 2FA setup only hardware token based solutions were available but today’s market has many different types of solutions to help meet a businesses needs,. OTP can still be provided via the traditional hardware token, but new methods such as SMS based solutions, smartcards and soft tokens are now providing a more cost effective way of providing the 2 factor authentication method required to increase security.

Solution Benefits

2FA solutions provide you with many business benefits:

• Greatly enhances security by requiring two independent pieces of information for authentication
• Integration into multiple applications and systems
• Uses existing technology for supply of token, i.e. SMS / Software
• Solutions are easy to deploy to users.
• Help reduce the success rate of man in the middle attacks and shoulder surfing.

Why SecureData?

SecureData is the largest independent security service provider within the UK,which offers a wide range of technologies and services.  We have specifically worked with 2 factor authentication technology for many years, traditionally with token based hardware to more cost effective methods such as software token based and SMS based.  Through extensive and continuous research of this market we are able to offer a variety of technologies to suit a your requirements.  The technologies that we  offer are seen as ‘best of breed’ within the security market and have been selected not only by the features they offer but also around the vendors commercial offerings, ability to provide global support, ability to include new features and support future trends.  We invests a lot of time in not only choosing the correct technologies to sit within our portfolio but also in Sales and Technical training so that not only are we able to supply the correct technology to fit your customer’s requirements but are also able to offer Professional Services for Implementation and Training backed up by either a supported, monitored or managed service. We achieve the highest levels of technical and commercial accreditations with all of those vendors that sit within our product portfolio.