Imprivata Background

Imprivata History

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.

Imprivata OneSign

Imprivata OneSign^® is an employee access management platform that strengthens user authentication to desktops and networks; streamlines application access; and simplifies the process of compliance reporting--all delivered through a secure, self-contained appliance that requires zero modifications to existing IT infrastructure. Centrally managed from a single administrative console, OneSign secures access across Windows, host-based, Citrix, and virtual desktop environments.

Imprivata OneSign empowers the organization to balance the need for stronger security with improved employee workflows and productivity—while also reducing the time and complexity of complying with regulated access control requirements, and password management costs that consume IT Help Desk resources. Organizations use Imprivata OneSign to:

Strengthen User Authentication
Imprivata OneSign enables flexible authentication management at the desktop, network, application, and transaction-level. By replacing weak Windows desktop, and remote VPN passwords with a broad range of strong authentication options--including finger biometrics, proximity cards, smart cards, many national and government ID cards, One-Time-Password tokens, and an employee’s physical location--organizations can centrally manage any combination of unique authentication modalities that best match employee roles and workflows.

Streamline Application Access
Imprivata OneSign solves password management and application access issues. By single sign-on enabling ALL enterprise applications--without requiring custom scripting, modifications to existing directories or disruptive changes to workflows--organizations can streamline, speed, and secure access to their corporate applications, improve employee productivity and satisfaction, and reduce the high costs of password management and reset call burdens on the IT Help Desk.

Simplify Compliance Reporting
Imprivata OneSign reduces the time and complexity of demonstrating compliance with data protection and privacy regulations. By tracking and consolidating disparate employee access events, organizations can rapidly respond to audit inquiries with real-time, aggregated views of when, how, and from where an employee gained network and application access. With the push of a button, OneSign can report who is sharing passwords, what applications users are authorized to access, and what credentials they are using. When users separate from the organization, OneSign ensures that access--across all user accounts--is instantly revoked.

Why Imprivata?

The power of Imprivata OneSign is that everything you need to secure employee access is provided, ALL, from one box. By integrating user directories, strong authentication, application single sign-on, and physical location to manage and enforce access policy, the OneSign platform provides the peace of mind and confidence that your information access is secured for any environment including Windows, host-based, Citrix, and virtual desktop environments. Purpose-built for flexible and rapid enterprise deployment, Imprivata OneSign’s appliance-based approach dramatically reduces implementation time, infrastructure needs, and installation costs—accelerating your return on investment and lowering your on-going management costs.

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.