Multi-factor authentication ensures that a user is who they claim to be. The more factors used to determine a person’s identity, the greater the trust of authenticity.
MFA can be achieved using a combination of the following factors:
- Something You Know – password or PIN
- Something You Have – token or smart card (two-factor authentication)
- Something You Are – biometrics, such as a fingerprint (three-factor authentication)
Because multi-factor authentication security requires multiple means of identification at login, it is widely recognized as the most secure method for authenticating access to data and applications.
Gemalto's multi-factor authentication software delivers the protection you expect, while enabling customers with broader choice, improved visibility, and the ability to expand into the future. As a result, organizations using our MFA software have:
Better self-control of data - Gemalto enables customers with the option to create and control their own token data, so there is no reliance on a third-party vendor
Improved management and visibility – Gemalto's solutions deliver single-server management, providing full control, simple administration, and reduced cost and staff burden
Expanded options – Gemalto delivers the broadest choice when it comes to access security methods – so you can meet the needs of any user and any risk level (hardware or software, certificate-based authentication or traditional one-time-password, on-premise, or into the cloud)
Future-ready solutions - Gemalto provides new solutions that deliver MFA and single sign-on (SSO) for cloud applications as well as credentialing for mobile device management
Painless migrations - Gemalto offers seamless migration to cloud-based authentication, which maintain your existing investments and cause no disruption to end users
With the plethora of access control offerings available today, it is important for organizations to carefully evaluate the available solutions before making a decision on which solution to implement. When choosing a solution, organizations should take a number of factors into account. The following are some questions to consider:
Do I want to protect my internal network from unauthorized access?
If so, consider
two-factor authentication (2FA) solutions that enable flexible and comprehensive secure network access, both in the office and remotely if needed.
Do my users need to connect from remote locations?
If so, consider portable solutions that enable
secure VPN and web access for remote users, and that enable employees to secure their laptops and data while on the road.
Do my users need to access many password-protected applications?
If so, consider solutions that provide
single sign-on functionality, either by storing user credentials on the token or by integrating with external single sign-on systems.
I want my users to digitally sign and encrypt sensitive data or transactions?
If so, consider
smart card-based solutions that provide secure onboard PKI key generation and cryptographic operations, as well as mobility for users.
How sensitive is my business data?
The more sensitive the data, the higher the priority on the robustness and security of the solution.
Do I want to firmly protect data that sits on my users’ PCs and laptops?
If so, consider
token solutions that integrate with PC security products such as boot protection and disk encryption applications that require the use of a token to boot a computer or decrypt protected data.
Have I or do I want to implement a secure physical access solution?
If so, consider
token solutions that enable integration with physical access systems.
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Gemalto allows organizations to meet the IT challenges of cloud, mobility, and escalating threats with authentication management platforms that offer flexible and simplified service delivery, and which address numerous use cases with the broadest range
of authentication methods and tokens.
Gemalto MFA Products:
More and more businesses embrace the benefits that derive from managing their data and applications in the cloud. As users access sensitive assets from a greater variety of devices and locations, organizations become vulnerable to new threats. AaaS enables organizations to easily apply strong authentication onto multiple access points.
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Gemalto AaaS Products:
Gemalto offers the most comprehensive identity access and management systems to administer, monitor, and manage strong authentication deployments across the organization.
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Gemalto Management Platform:
Offering the broadest range of methods and form factors, Gemalto allows customers to address numerous use cases, assurance levels, and threat vectors with unified, centrally managed policies—managed from one authentication back end delivered in the
cloud or on premise.
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Gemalto Authenticators:
Certificate-Based USB Tokens:
Provide secure remote access as well as other advanced applications, including digital signing, password management, network logon, and combined physical/logical access.
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Context-Based & Step-Up Authentication:
Context-based authentication, when combined with step-up authentication, optimizes a layered approach to access security by assessing user login attributes and matching them against pre-defined security policies.
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Certificate-Based Smart Cards: Strong
multi-factor authentication in traditional credit card form factors that enable organizations to address their PKI security and access control needs.
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Hybrid Tokens: Authenticators
that combine one-time password, encrypted flash memory or certificate-based technology on the same strong authentication device.
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Mobile Phone- and Software-Based Authentication: Save
on hardware and deployment costs, while users benefit by not having to carry an additional hardware token around with them.
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Pattern-Based Authentication: Also
called Grid Authentication, presents the end-user with a matrix of cells which contain random characters, from which they select a 'personal identification pattern' (PIP).
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Out-of-Band Authentication:
(OOB) authentication is a form of strong authentication that utilizes a communication channel other than the channel being accessed to provide a ‘something you have,’ second authentication factor.
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OTP Authenticators:
Generate dynamic one-time passwords (OTPs) for properly authenticating users to critical applications and data, whether on a token, mobile device, or grid-based authentication.
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Gemalto’s security applications consist of middleware and password management software that enable users to securely store and manage user credentials.
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Organizations are facing new access control challenges as mobile devices become the computing platform of choice, as organizations rapidly adopt Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud-based applications, and as threat vectors escalate.
Gemalto allows organizations to adapt their business and security needs to meet these challenges with access security solutions that offer flexible service delivery which simplifies authentication implementation and management through automated processes, and which drastically reduce the time and cost of provisioning, administration, and managing users and tokens compared to traditional models.
Administrators need to create consistent policies for secure access via VPNs and keep their identity and access management solution flexible, cost-effective, and easy to-deploy.
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The growth in the use of virtualized environments – particularly Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions – is challenging businesses to overcome the vulnerabilities of fixed passwords.
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With context-based authentication, employees can easily and securely access enterprise and SaaS applications, as long as they meet pre-defined policy rules set in advance by the administrator.
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Additional Uses Cases
In addition to the above, by combining authentication with encryption and cryptographic key management, Gemalto customers can address the following high-priority security needs throughout their organizations.
By adopting an information-centric approach you can meet the data compliance needs of today while staying persistently compliant with new mandates.
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Consistently safeguard the integrity and trust of your organization's public key infrastructure (PKI) environments.
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Industry-Specific Data Protection Solutions
Offering solutions that are industry-specific, Gemalto is able to serve the particular requirements of our customers, protecting the world’s leading organizations in finance, retail, healthcare, and more.
Gemalto is the market leader in financial data security for the world’s largest financial institutions protecting over 80% of the world’s fund transfers, providing transaction security for five of the world’s largest central banks.
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With Gemalto solutions, healthcare organizations achieve and maintain compliance by protecting sensitive data, such as patient records, medical transactions, and intellectual property for pharmaceutical and medical patents.
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Retailers utilize Gemalto solutions to secure customer data inside their organizations and achieve compliance with all retail data privacy mandates.
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Government Data Security
Gemalto is trusted by governments across the world to secure mission critical information, control access, ensure data ownership, and safeguard communications.
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The surge in high-profile security breaches, as well as evolving business environments that require entirely new considerations for access control - like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and mobile device management - represents a shift in how trust and control is established and maintained.
More than ever, authentication is vital for the health of any organization – empowering admins to secure access to corporate networks, protect the identities of users, and ensure that a user is who he claims to be. Check out the below resources to learn how your organization can utilize and benefit from multi-factor authentication solutions.
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