Imprivata Background

Imprivata was founded by entrepreneurs who had developed groundbreaking identity management technology while working at Polaroid Corporation’s small business incubator. Their team developed and deployed large-scale digital identity systems around the world, leveraging its collective experience in the areas of distributed credential management and credential privacy to authenticate millions of users.

In April 2004, Imprivata shipped the OneSign enterprise single sign-on appliance. Imprivata’s unique appliance-based approach for providing secure and convenient access to enterprise applications became quickly adopted by organizations in regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services and state and local government, as well as a mix of other organizations that needed to quickly and effectively solve password security and user access issues.

OneSign has received top ratings in product reviews at InfoWorld, SC Magazine, PC News Weekly, Federal Computer Week, IT Week, CNETand Web Week. OneSign was also selected for an Information Security "Product of the Year" Award. OneSign was selected Best Single Sign-On Product at the SC Magazine Awards in Europe and recently, David Ting, the company’s founder, was selected by InfoWorld as one of the top CTOs of 2006.

Imprivata’s channel-driven sales model enabled the company to quickly scale as demand for OneSign rapidly increased. In 2005, Imprivata expanded its infrastructure into Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Technology partnerships were formed with authentication, provisioning and physical security vendors. In that same year, Imprivata shipped OneSign 3.0, increasing extensibility and expanding authentication to include physical access cards.

Today, the Imprivata OneSign platform offers distinct license modules to address specific enterprise needs:

• OneSign Authentication Management replaces Windows and remote access VPN passwords with a broad range of strong authentication options, including integrated management for One-Time-Password tokens, finger biometrics, and proximity cards. OneSign provides greater security through flexible user authentication management, whether accessed through the network locally, via remote VPN, or while working offline.
• OneSign Single Sign-On quickly and effectively solves password management, security and user access issues. OneSign single sign-on enables ALL applications – legacy, client/server, and web - without requiring any custom scripting, changes to existing directories, or inconvenient end-user workflow changes.
• OneSign Physical/Logical integrates network and building access systems to provide a single consolidated user identity. Organizations can now implement one comprehensive, converged policy for allowing or denying network access based on a user’s physical location, role, and/or employee status.

The power of Imprivata OneSign is that it’s ALL in the box. Regardless of your initial start point, you can seamlessly enable additional capabilities as your needs evolve - all with a simple license key.

Imprivata OneSign is shipped as a hardware appliance pair - there is nothing else to buy, install or maintain. OneSign’s scalable web service-based architecture and built-in failover for system reliability gets you up and running quickly and easily, without the complexity and costs associated with buying, implementing, and managing independent and non-integrated alternatives.

Imprivata continues to deliver on its vision of delivering breakthrough appliance-based authentication and access management solutions that provide out-of-the-box functionality and ease-of-use to our customers and partners worldwide.