Evidian deploys its authentication management solution
Evidian eliminates the complexity of strong authentication by unifying administration and making users effective and self-reliant.
PARIS - Evidian announces that a growing number of its customers are now using the functions of Evidian Authentication Manager, a solution that enhances strong authentication devices with functions that are essential to their deployment in enterprises. These organizations can use either smart cards, biometrics, radio badges or one-time passwords indifferently. Authentication Manager reduces costs through a unified management console and adapts strong authentication to the constraints of business users.
Many companies discover too late that their strong authentication deployments have quickly become complex and costly. Each solution adds its own duplicated infrastructure management, resulting in heterogeneous access and recovery policies. As a result, those companies are trapped into a technical choice and risk rejection by their users.
In contrast, Authentication Manager makes organizations independent from strong authentication technologies. The solution replaces native authentication infrastructures and adds features needed in business situations:
- Secure auto-unlock by users if they lose an authentication device
- Users can delegate access to their own PCs
- Unified console to manage the access policy and audit
- An infrastructure that requires no additional server
This flexibility allows companies to diversify their suppliers and use several types of strong authentication as needed. Whatever the authentication solution chosen, management procedures and everyday use remain the same. The security policy is defined just once - for all access modes.
Taking the needs of business users into account
Most strong authentication solutions are content to perform session login check. If this is enough for many users, core business processes often require more elaborate functions. Tested and used every day in hospitals, trading rooms and retail stores, Authentication Manager adds the functionality necessary for those engaged in critical business:
- Kiosk access with fast user switching
- Roaming sessions
- Protecting a cluster of PCs with one single authentication
- Named access to generic Windows accounts
Authentication Manager eliminates project risks by adapting strong authentication solutions to functional constraints. This is a guarantee of continuity for the authentication solution of your choice.
Easy administration reduces usage costs
Help desk staff use the Authentication Manager console to grant, remove or unlock all types of access, from Windows passwords to smart cards, radio badges, biometrics or one-time passwords. Employees can obtain a temporary access by themselves when they lose their device. IT availability is considerably increased.
Authentication Manager is part of Evidian’s identity and access management solution. It can thus be complemented by Evidian’s Enterprise SSO - in that case, the authentication device replaces applications passwords as well.
“Companies face paradoxical requirements: they must increase their agility and openness while strengthening control. As a practical consequence, strong authentication is facing operational constraints” says Hassan Maad, Evidian COO. “When you have thousands of users, you must be flexible and cover all use cases. Authentication Manager simplifies the everyday use and administration of strong authentication, regardless of the means of access.”
Authentication Manager is compatible with all major types of authentication: smart cards and USB tokens, fingerprint and vein biometrics, RFID radio tags, one-time passwords, PKI certificates and login / passwords. It works with Citrix XenApp and Windows Terminal Server thin clients.
About Evidian
Evidian, a Bull Group company, is the European leader and one of the major worldwide vendors of identity and access management software. Evidian has offices and partners throughout the world. Evidian software helps over 700 organizations in the world improve their agility, enhance security and comply with laws and regulations, while reducing costs. For more information about Evidian software, offices and partners, visit www.evidian.com
