Strong Authentication Solutions from SECURE COMPUTING®

Know Who is in your Network

Networks are growing rapidly, especially with the widespread use of VPNs that allow remote branch offices, teleworkers, traveling employees, partners, and even select clients to gain access to your network. It's important to keep control over who is gaining access, and what they are accessing. Simple authentication methods like memorized passwords are commonly used, but these are almost always totally inadequate. Memorized passwords can be guessed, and even if they are more complex and difficult to guess, they can still be easily stolen through any one of a dozen different techniques. All it takes is a simple keylogger program, commonly available on the Internet, to steal a password. Inside the company, insiders can steal a co-worker's password with ease, simply by shoulder surfing. Some employees are more trusting than they should be, and may even give a co-worker a password.

Relying on simple memorized passwords is assigning too much trust in a large body of people. In the best security environment, the watchword is "trust no one". The best way to make sure that only authorized individuals are accessing your network, is to impose strong authentication.

Secure Computing delivers the best in strong authentication with its Secure SafeWord authentication system, and Securewire identity and access management appliance. Secure Computing's strong authentication, as delivered through Secure SafeWord, takes away all the vulnerabilities of the memorized password, and replaces it with two-factor authentication. This approach gives each user a small hardware token, into which they enter a PIN number. The token then generates a one-time passcode, which is then used to authenticate with the server. Using this type of strong authentication, any attempt to steal the passcode is useless, because the passcode is used only once and then discarded.

The SecureWire strong authentication appliance provides fast and secure access to every application and resource on the network, for all remote and internal connections. The SecureWire strong authentication appliance is perfect for Microsoft environments, and plugs right into Active Directory. SecureWire comes with standard SafeWord strong authentication, and provides a single point for policy creation and enforcement and reporting.

Secure Computing's Secure SafeWord strong authentication is very easy to use. Secure SafeWord secures connections to VPNs, RADIUS devices, Citrix applications, and Outlook; and adds authentication support for Windows Domain and Terminal Services logins.

For more information on Secure Computing's Strong Authentication solutions, please visit our Identity and Access Management pages and Strong Authentication page.