Strong Authentication for the Enterprise

It is critical to authenticate the identity of an individual or device granted access to sensitive networks or facilities. With a software authentication platform, organizations can tailor authentication — whether for physical access, the online channel or through a mobile device — depending on the type of user, risk assessment and application.

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The Entrust IdentityGuard software authentication platform allows organizations to match the authentication strength and mechanism to the amount of risk involved in the user's role, usability requirements and cost considerations.

This enables organizations to apply strong authentication across the enterprise, instead of just for a select group of users. Entrust IdentityGuard seamlessly integrates with existing environments with minimal impact on the user experience. This is advantageous for users accessing the network via remote access, Microsoft Windows desktops or the extranet, which is used for leading applications like Microsoft® Outlook® Web Access.

Versatile

Offers one of the widest ranges of strong authentication options on the market today, which includes physical or non-physical approaches, and can be transparent to users or take advantage of existing mobile devices.

Mobile Certificates

Provides IT administrators an easy and consistent way to enroll and manage certificates for mobile devices. And with Entrust's self-service module, end-users add a certificate to their own mobile devices via an easy-to-use interface for advanced certificate-based authentication.

Flexible

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

Non-Invasive

Minimizes user impact, enabling a choice of authentication methods and only performing authentication when needed to reduce risk.

Mobile Security

Leverages existing mobile devices for greater authentication security. Enterprise-specific capabilities include support for decryption of encrypted email on mobile devices, one-time-passcode (OTP) authentication, mobile smart credentials and Entrust's advanced software development kit (SDK).

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).

Easy Integration

Entrust's open API architecture allows for tight integration with today's leading mobile device management (MDM), identity access management (IAM) and public key infrastructure (PKI) vendors. This enables Entrust IdentityGuard to work with new and existing enterprise implementations, plus adds the ability to integrate in-house or managed service-based digital certificates.

Platform Approach

Entrust offers strong authentication, physical and logical access solutions, and leverages the power of mobile devices — all from a single platform.

A New Standard

Entrust's software authentication platform is the new standard for physical, logical and mobile access control that simplifies issuance and management.

Enterprise Mobility

Entrust provides the only authentication platform that fully enables today's leading mobile platforms for real-world business use. Entrust's mobile capabilities make it easy for end-users to enroll their mobile devices for device certificate issuance. And advanced mobile smart credentials can be used with Bluetooth and near-field communication (NFC) technology for even greater convenience.

Convenient Credentials

Entrust deploys smart credential capabilities to mobile devices for physical and logical access, but also provides smartcard-based security for desktops and laptops without native smartcard readers or drivers.

Meeting Corporate Requirements

The software authentication platform is always evolving to meet enterprise needs, including support for generic OATH-based tokens, Microsoft PKI, time-based DisplayCard tokens and expanded PACs integration.

Power of PIV

The U.S. government's Personal Identity Verification (PIV) standard is rapidly being adopted in non-governmental environments. And Entrust is one of only three vendors authorized to offer PIV and PIV-Interoperable (PIV-I) credentialing solutions.

Mobile Leadership

Entrust's strong authentication and identity-based security solutions are either compatible with, or directly leverage, today's most popular mobile platforms (e.g., Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry, BlackBerry PlayBook and more).

Self-Service Device Registration

Authorized employees, staff or contractors simply log in to the Entrust IdentityGuard Self Service Module to enroll their mobile device and are issued a digital certificate. The entire process is seamless and occurs in real-time.

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 IdentityGuard Self-Service Module
Reduces administrative overhead, speeds deployment and improves user experience
Entrust Managed Services PKI
A hosted PKI solution for issuing digital certificates that enable encryption, digital signatures and authentication
Entrust GetAccess
For single sign on (SSO) and access control
Federation Module
Enables flexible and consistent standards-based strong authentication for federated applications and services

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