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Strengthen User Authentication

Today, the fastest growing data security risk is the need to protect enterprise information assets from threats inside the organization. In fact, research finds that 75% of all fraud and theft is perpetrated by trusted employees and contractors. Given today’s economic climate, enforcing and monitoring employee access to information assets is essential to your enterprise security and the strength of your business.

Effectively enforcing and monitoring employee access requires secure authentication. As you consider secure authentication, there are many options available to you –all with different characteristics, and each with their pros and cons.

Considerations include:

Does the device meet your security objectives? Will it be as secure as you want it to be? And, will it support your other security initiatives (e.g.: encryption, pre-boot authentication)?
Does the device meet your productivity objectives? Will the device work as fast and reliably as you want it to?
Does the authentication device fit into your budget?
Most importantly, will your users accept it? At the end of the day, any authentication tool can be compromised, on purpose or by accident. But the likelihood that it will be compromised really depends on how well your users will accept and adopt it. And, using just one device in your organization might not be an option given the jobs, work habits and workflows each user deals with on a daily basis.

Deploy Strong Authentication through Imprivata OneSign

With Imprivata OneSign, you can centrally manage all the devices you choose through an easy to use, Web-based Administrator’s console. Organizations can centrally manage access policy that incorporates use of any combination of user authentication modalities that best match employee roles and workflows – ensuring secure authentication, strengthening security, while enabling users to be their most productive.

OneSign strengthens user authentication 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.

Imprivata OneSign’s authentication management capabilities enforces who gets access to what; provides reporting for visibility into what was accessed, when, how and from where; and ultimately, ensures all termination of a user’s network and application access, instantly, as needed. With OneSign Authentication Management you can:

Manage a broad range of flexible and powerful strong authentication types all from within a single administrator framework.
Set policy based on users, their job function, their workflows, and even the machines they use.
Report in real-time on what was accessed, when, how and from where so you can quickly respond to audit inquiries and compliance regulations

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Single Sign-On for Industry Verticals

Imprivata’s single sign on application provides optimal security management capabilities for a wide range of verticals including healthcare, finance and government. Imprivata’s OneSign platform provides organizations with user authentication and single sign on technology using stringent password security standards.

More and more, companies are turning to two factor authentication techniques to ensure secure authentication to critical information including biometric management. Strong authentication can be used in conjunction with or in lieu of a universal password and supplies a very high level of identity management security.