RSA Extends Identity Assurance to the Cloud

RSA Extends Identity Assurance to the Cloud

RSA SecurID® Access
Offers Flexible Mobile Multi-Factor Authentication Options

SINGAPORE – May 9,
2017 – RSA, a Dell
Technologies business, extends its authentication market leadership with a
series of new capabilities for its RSA SecurID Access solution. Enhancements
include a cloud-based Authentication-as-a-Service option aimed at delivering
seamless access to both on-premises and cloud-based resources and systems, and
additional dynamic, risk scoring functionality that is designed to deliver
convenient and secure access for any user, anywhere, any time.

As cloud and mobile
use grows, and the user access base expands to include contractors, vendors,
partners and customers, organizations are provisioning access to more systems,
creating a larger, evolving attack surface, primarily targeting identities.
Identity innovations from RSA are engineered to enable customers to reimagine
their identity strategies to better protect all of their critical business
assets – whether on-premises or in the cloud – against identity-based attacks,
meet compliance requirements and deliver more flexible authentication options
for the modern workforce.

“Organizations must
balance user demands for convenient and secure access while ensuring users are
who they claim to be,” said John Tolbert, Senior Analyst, KuppingerCole. “RSA
SecurID Access now features a platform for integrating a variety of MFA options
to right-size authentication to business risk, unite islands of identity
domains, and promote interoperability with other IAM solutions.”

Authentication Your
Way

RSA SecurID Access
offers flexibility and convenience for customers with a broad range of advanced
mobile multi-factor authentication options such as push notification/approval,
biometrics (fingerprint, eye-print), Fast Identity Online (FIDO) token, and
hardware and software tokens. Customers can choose a deployment option that
works for their environment – on-premises, SaaS, or a hybrid cloud option. RSA
has a multi-factor authentication solution that meets unique organizational
requirements and can scale from a small but dynamic user population to one with
millions of users.

Identity Assurance
Made to Deliver Anytime, Anywhere Access and Minimize Risk

The newly-launched
advanced identity assurance technology is designed to validate the legitimacy
of access attempts by dynamically evaluating a significant number and varied
types of user characteristics (e.g., role, location, IP address, device type,
time of attempted login, etc.). This data is correlated and analyzed along with
the risk associated with the asset they’re trying to access to make
authentication decisions, in real time. Leveraging dynamic risk analytics at
time of access request helps give organizations assurance that assets are
protected while only asking users to step-up authentication when the situation
appears more risky.

RSA SecurID Access
Customers Can Do More

Existing RSA
Authentication Manager customers are able to easily take advantage of RSA
SecurID Access’ advanced mobile multi-factor authentication (mobile MFA)
options and allow them to use the same variety of authenticators like push
notification, biometrics, hard and soft tokens while also leveraging the risk
scoring and identity assurance capabilities whether their users are accessing
VPNs, on-premises web applications, desktop or SaaS applications.

“Customers are seeking
to reduce total cost of ownership by adopting cloud-based IAM solutions, often
beginning with authentication, identity assurance and single sign-on,” said Jim
Ducharme, Vice President, Identity Products, RSA. “RSA SecurID Access enables
our existing customers to extend their use of RSA SecurID Access from the
traditional authentication strategies and methods to cloud-based, flexible
options for their increasingly mobile workforce and other users requiring
authentication. Our latest innovations in advanced multi-factor authentication,
validated by the pure cloud Identity Assurance-as-a-Service offering, operate
seamlessly in hybrid on-premises and cloud environments, allowing organizations
to move to the cloud on their timeline.”

                                                                                                         

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

·       Read about Authentication Your Way

·       Learn more about RSA
Identity Reimagined

·       Discover RSA SecurID Access

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