Identity & Access Management Solutions

Studies show employees use three or more different devices for work on a daily basis and 89% of mobile users will access business applications using their personal devices. The rapid increase in mobile usage has many IT teams scrambling to get enterprise mobile security in line with current corporate standards.

All authentication methods are based on providing the legitimate user with a method for proving his or her identity. Such “proof” can involve different form factors, such as something only the user knows (like a password) or something only the user has (like an external piece of hardware or the user’s biometric information). It could also be something that the user is, such as unique physical attributes, for example, a fingerprint or retinal scan.

Many organizations rarely look closely at the Total Cost of Operation of their authentication solution and instead make a decision heavily driven by the up-front purchase price. This approach to assessing authentication costs shows that infrastructure investments and management overheads dominate the total cost of the solution. Lowering these overheads, therefore, would reduce Total Cost of Operation. Cloud-based services are increasingly becoming an integral part of the enterprise, precisely because they lower costs and management overhead while increasing flexibility.

Employees are increasingly working out of the office; more of them are using mobile devices and a greater number of them are logging in to cloud applications to perform business tasks. In this ebook, we present five guidelines for supporting secure employee mobility.