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Strong Authentication for Financial Institutions

The Entrust IdentityGuard software authentication platform provides more than a simple one-step means of protecting the world's largest and most respected financial institutions.

Entrust's unique layered strategy approach enables financial institutions to quickly deploy and build a security framework. This provides strong protection for customers across varied lines of business, but also evolves across multiple access channels to provide end-users with a seamless, powerful solution that helps enhance market position.

This multilayered approach leverages advanced security technology that are already successful for today's top financial institutions. The solution is efficient and cost-effective for mass deployment, without unduly disrupting the end-user experience.

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To effectively improve security and compliance controls, total cost of ownership and the end-customer experience, the world's top financial institutions are adopting identity-based security and fraud detection platforms that span enterprise-wide needs.

Entrust IdentityGuard, combined with Entrust TransactionGuard's real-time, zero-touch fraud detection capabilities, provides a complete strong authentication and fraud detection framework that properly secures and protects transactions and valued end-users.

For Banking Customers:

  • Builds online trust for customers or citizens when they bank, shop, pay bills or access any kind of online service
  • Limits impact to customers' online experience
  • Integration of mobile devices better fits end-user lifestyle, enhancing ease-of-use and overall convenience

For Banks & Financial Institutions:

  • Help protect customers from online identity or account theft
  • Help comply with government regulations
  • Leverage mobile devices for stronger authentication and overall customer security
  • Benefit from cost reductions and better customer relationships that come from providing more services online
  • Increase confidence in an organization's brand, service and offerings
  • Affordable, deployable and manageable for large user populations
  • Gives organizations flexibility in their authentication schemes (i.e., ability to manage multiple authentication methods using one platform)
  • Help reduce costs related to managing multiple authentication methods
  • Provides a market differentiator based on offering increased personalized security to online customers and users
  • Entrust IdentityGuard Self-Service Module provides a Web-based interface that allows users to manage many aspects of their authentication identities, freeing administrator time without compromising the security of the network
Password Device Authentication Mobile SMS Scratch Pat Method Mobile Smart Credential Mobile Device Certificates Mobile TVS Digital Certificates USB and Smartcards Transaction Signing Biometrics OTP Tokens IDG Grid Knowledge Based Security IP Geolocation Mutual Authentication

The most versatile authentication platform on the market, Entrust IdentityGuard enables organizations to implement strong authentication for larger user populations — and prompt users only when it makes sense.

Mobile

Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile helps organizations and financial institutions strongly authenticate consumer and business customers without requiring specialized security hardware such as one-time-passcode (OTP) hardware tokens.

Interoperable

Entrust IdentityGuard enables strong authentication via today's most popular mobile platforms, including Apple iOS, RIM BlackBerry, Google Android and more.

Cost-Effective

Represents a more affordable approach to deploying a wide range of authentication capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional, single-purpose solutions.

Flexible

Provides flexibility to tailor authentication to user preference, transaction risk and cost.

Interoperable

Easily fits into any architecture and integrates via standards with leading technology players. Seamlessly works in conjunction with the Entrust TransactionGuard real-time fraud detection solution to create a proven security framework.

Innovative

Includes advanced authenticators like soft tokens, eGrids, smartcards, mobile credentials, digital/device certificates, credit card-sized Display Cards and SMS one-time-passcodes. The platform also supports multiple channels, including IVR systems, email, telephone, kiosks, in-person and text messages (SMS).

Versatile

Offers one of the widest ranges of strong authentication options on the market today, including innovative physical and non-physical second-factor authentication. Also includes advanced security through transaction digital signatures, recommended by leading analyst firms.

Based on geographic location, customer type, transaction amounts, or even nation and global regulatory mandates, financial institutions have unique requirements for authentication frameworks.

From wholesale, retail and investment banking to the needs of internal employees, FIs seek to decouple authentication and fraud detection from applications. Entrust's cross-channel and cross-application frameworks not only meets varied needs, but provide the agility and flexibility to react to new fraud vectors and compliance regulations.

Enable Compliance

Adapt to various international regulatory requirements like FFIEC, Red Flags, etc.

Streamline Migration

To help streamline migration from older technology, Entrust IdentityGuard facilitates an easy transition to a comprehensive authentication framework by allowing for co-deployed environments.

Solve End-User Needs

Meet authentication needs of diverse end-user groups (e.g., retail, wholesale, high net-worth).

Meet Multichannel Requirements

Solve the authentication needs of various channels, particularly emerging platforms like mobile and cloud.

Empower Global Workforces

Integrate a single authentication management platform to provide physical and logical access for global enterprise security.

Simplify Risk Management

Platform versatility enables quick migration to different authenticators.

Reduce Costs

Consolidating platforms and working from a common security policy framework streamlines security management and reduces the total cost of ownership.

Embrace Mobile

Entrust IdentityGuard leverages existing mobile devices for greater authentication security. Proven transaction verification, one-time-passcode (OTP) authentication and an advanced software development kit (SDK) are powerful tools in the fight against online and mobile fraud.

Global Success

Entrust IdentityGuard is the strong authentication solution of choice for many of today's elite banks and financial institutions.

  • Entrust IdentityGuard for Enterprise
    A strong software authentication platform for the enterprise environment
  • Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile
    Leverage mobile devices to achieve greater efficiency via mobile authentication, transaction verification, mobile smart credentials and Entrust's software development kit
  • Entrust TransactionGuard
    A zero-touch fraud detection solution that works seamlessly with Entrust IdentityGuard to provide organizations and global financial institutions with a comprehensive security framework
  • Entrust Managed Services PKI
    A hosted PKI solution for issuing digital certificates that enable encryption, digital signatures and authentication
  • Entrust Certificate Services
    Proven SSL and EV SSL certificates
  • Federation Module
    Enables flexible and consistent standards-based strong authentication for federated applications and services

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