TriCipher Solutions: Identity Management & Single Sign On
Businesses issue online credentials to users to verify their identities. Once verified, IdM and Single Sign On (SSO) systems manage user access to confidential information, critical applications and allow them to conduct important transactions with a single credential. The ability to access many resources using a single credential has tremendous business benefits but it also dramatically increases the consequences if that credential is stolen by an attacker. Unfortunately, IdM and SSO systems often rely on weak authentication methods such as passwords, cookies, or one time password (OTP) tokens that are easy to defeat. Before you can provide a user access through an IdM or SSO system, it is critical that you are certain of the user’s identity. Without strong user authentication, attackers can steal the user’s credential and sensitive information, misappropriate valuable resources or compromise critical business applications.
"With Single Sign On, you need an integrated authentication infrastructure that can support different strengths of authentication-based risks for each application. One application may need browser 2 factor authentication, while a different application needs the stronger PC 2 factor.
SHAZAM was able to work with TriCipher and our other technology vendors to integrate and leverage 2 factor authentication, identity management, and Single Sign On capabilities."
Terry Dooley
SHAZAM CIO
TriCipher Armored Identity Management is a unified authentication infrastructure that protects sensitive information, valuable resources, and critical applications connected to IdM and SSO systems from fraud and identity theft by issuing and managing a variety of secure, easy to use, and low cost credentials.
The existing options for authentication with IdM and SSO systems such as passwords, cookies, pictures and tokens have been proven inadequate by fraudsters, while stronger forms of authentication such as traditional PKI, Smart Cards, and Biometrics have failed to realize their potential because they are difficult to use and deploy, and simply cost too much to make business sense. Everyone, including customers, online businesses, and government regulators recognize the immediate need to move beyond passwords to an easy to use, secure, and low cost system that will prevent fraud and identity theft.
The TriCipher Armored Identity Management is the only unified authentication infrastructure that can provide a secure, easy to use and low cost authentication system that seamlessly integrates strong authentication with IdM and SSO systems. TriCipher provides more effective security than traditional PKI, is as easy to use as entering a username/password and has a low cost per user and transaction.
