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SecureAuth IdP wins test of 8 software-based authentication systems

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SecureAuth Aims to Shore Up BYOD Vulnerabilities

SecureAuth Aims to Shore Up BYOD Vulnerabilities (Page 14) Security has emerged as a big sticking point for IT departments as more and more companies implement BYOD policies. SecureAuth is launching a heuristic-based authentication capability designed to improve the BYOD experience when logging into secured mobile apps.

SecureAuth Device Fingerprinting, A Unique Amalgamation Of Enterprise Security and UX

SecureAuth Device Fingerprinting, A Unique Amalgamation Of Enterprise Security and UX There are BYOD solutions that are enterprise friendly and there are some that are user friendly, but most appreciated are the ones that balance out both the aspects. One such solution that manages to perform all of it single handily is,  SecureAuth Idp, an [...]

Smartphones take center stage in two-factor authentication schemes

Smartphones take center stage in two-factor authentication schemes Network World - We all know that relying on a simple user ID and password combination is fraught with peril. One alternative is to use one of the single sign-on solutions we reviewed last year, but there are less expensive options that could also be easier to install.

Knock, Knock, Who’s There?

Knock, Knock, Who’s There? When word got out in March that FreeCreditReport.com coughed up information on Attorney General Eric Holder and other celebrities, worries once again shot up about hackers on the Internet, even though these incidents did not involve hacking per se.

Semiconductor Giant Drops Hard Tokens to Save Big

Semiconductor Giant Drops Hard Tokens to Save Big At Marvell Technology Group, which makes more than one billion semiconductor chips a year, security is a critical task. The company recently jettisoned its hard token approach to two-factor authentication in favor of a soft token system.

Protect Your Business: Tips for Preventing Cyber Attacks, From a Stevie® Awards Chair

Protect Your Business: Tips for Preventing Cyber Attacks, From a Stevie® Awards Chair Craig Lund, CEO of SecureAuth Corporation in Irvine, California, USA, is the Chair of the Final Judging Committee for the company awards and organization awards categories in The 2013 American Business Awards, the premier business awards program in the USA. We talked with him about cyber terrorism, career advice, and what [...]

LivingSocial Data Breach Affects Millions

LivingSocial Data Breach Affects Millions LivingSocial, an e-commerce startup, revealed a massive data security breach late Friday, informing at least 50 million of its users that attackers had infiltrated its systems and gained access to some of its customer data.

SecureAuth Earns Two Authentication Patents

SecureAuth Earns Two Authentication Patents The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued two patents to identity technology provider SecureAuth for configuring a digital certificate’s valid duration period and for facilitating secure online transactions.

SecureAuth Selects New Senior Vice President Of Worldwide Sales

Tom Pak Will Leverage Exponential Sales Experience to Dominate Mobile and Cloud Market Share IRVINE, Calif., March 14, 2013 – SecureAuth, a leading provider of identity enforcement technology for the enterprise, today announced that Tom Pak has joined the company as senior vice president of Worldwide Sales. Tom is responsible for the direct sales, channel [...]

Government Technology: Should Government Adjust Mobile Security Techniques?

Government Technology: Should Government Adjust Mobile Security Techniques? Mobile security is crucial in a workforce where more and more employees communicate and transmit data with handheld devices. Technology research firm Gartner predicts that mobile endpoints will eclipse PCs as the most common Web access tools in 2013, and the worth of the federal cybersecurity market [...]

Embracing the BYOD Trend

Embracing the BYOD Trend Organizations in all industries can embrace the bring-your-own-device trend if they take adequate steps to authenticate mobile users, says Soumya Das of SecureAuth.

SecureAuth Awarded Two Patents for User Authentication Methods for Secure Mobile, Web, Cloud and Network Access

Will Demonstrate Technology within Mobile Access Management at RSA Conference February 25 through March 1 IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 20, 2013 – SecureAuth, a leading provider of identity enforcement technology for the enterprise, has been issued two patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Patent 8,301,877 is for configuring a valid duration period for a [...]

More than 10 Million Corporate End-Users use SecureAuth for Identity Access Management on Mobile, Cloud and Network; Company Records Triple Digit Revenue Growth Fifth Year in a Row

Increased use of BYOD within enterprises fuels need for stronger identity and access management IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 16, 2013 – SecureAuth, a leading provider of identity enforcement technology for the enterprise, closed 2012 with record corporate end-user subscriber and revenue growth. There are more than 10 million subscribers whose organizations benefit from being an Identity [...]

BYOD Cues Focus Shift from Device Management To User Management

BYOD Cues Focus Shift from Device Management To User Management The latest developments happening in the Enterprise Mobility Management domain clearly indicate that in the wake of BYOD there is a focus shift from Device Management to User Management. User Management based solutions are coming from companies who have a payload of experience in providing [...]

SecureAuth, Changing The Face Of BYOD Enterprise Mobility Management

SecureAuth, Changing The Face Of BYOD Enterprise Mobility Management SecureAuth today provides hardware token replacement solutions, SAML Support, Single Sign On (SSO) Multitenant and cloud hosting offering, Multi-factor authentication for cloud, network and mobile devices and more…

SecureAuth IdP gets 5 Star Rating from SC Magazine

SecureAuth IdP gets 5 Star Rating from SC Magazine SecureAuth IdP combines a multitude of authentication and identity management features. This product can be installed as an on-premise or cloud-based deployment for managing single sign-on and two-factor authentication for many facets of the enterprise infrastructure…

SecureAuth Wins Best BYOD Solution From UP-START Cloud Awards

SecureAuth IdP for Mobile Honored for Providing Secure, Two-Factor Authenticated Identity Management for Mobile Devices and Apps IRVINE, CA–(Marketwire – Dec 13, 2012) – SecureAuth, the leading provider of identity enforcement technology for the enterprise, today announced that its SecureAuth IdP for Mobile was awarded the “Best BYOD Solution” UP-START Cloud Award at the third [...]

SecureAuth Provides Mobile Access Management for Android Users

SecureAuth IdP for Android enables end users to download app to enact two-factor authentication and SSO while enterprise IT maintains control IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 4, 2012 – SecureAuth, a leading provider of identity enforcement technology for the enterprise, today launched SecureAuth IdP for Android, a Mobile Access Management solution that addresses the escalating use and [...]

SecureAuth Launches Enterprise-Grade Security for Mobile Applications

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SecureAuth Offers Businesses Four Tips To Prevent Passwords Hacks and Data Breaches

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Cyber Security: Tips on How Business Owners Can Keep Their Company Safe

Cyber Security: Tips on How Business Owners Can Keep Their Company Safe Every enterprise has security policies that pre-exist. Most of the time, they’re outdated. They’re outdated on three key points. They’re outdated on the new policies that the government and the regulatory commissions have put out. They’re completely outdated on the devices,” said Garret [...]

SecureAuth IdP Wins People’s Choice Stevie® Award for Favorite Security Solution

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SecureAuth First to Enable Enterprises to Become Their Own Identity Providers

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Will Tech Industry Ever Fix Passwords?

 Will Tech Industry Ever Fix Passwords? What LinkedIn and other recent breaches tell us about widespread security risks as we embrace social media and cloud applications in the enterprise….

Five BYOD threats you must solve today – or risk losing your job

  Five BYOD threats you must solve today – or risk losing your job The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is growing by the quarter and putting enterprise IT at ever greater risk. In fact, Forrester Research predicts that by the year 2016, more than 200 million employees will be requiring access to corporate applications via smartphones [...]

SecureAuth Wins Stevie® Award for “Fastest-Growing Company – Up to 100 Employees” in 2012 American Business Awards

Big night for SecureAuth in New York...

SecureAuth Homes in on BYOD Mgmt and Mobile Apps Access

One of the key SecureAuth message in 2012 is how enterprises need to adjust to a BYOD. And that does not mean just purchases a mechanism (MDM) or other to manage personal and corporate mobile devices.

SC Magazine Awards SecureAuth IEP 5 Stars

SC Magazine awards SecureAuth IEP 5 Stars for Features, Ease of Use, and Performance.  The SC Magazine testing team included its Labs staff, as well as external experts who are respected industry-wide. The evaluators test multiple products around a common theme based on a predetermined set of SC Labs standards and a second set of [...]

SecureAuth Lanuches in Japan at Cloudforce Japan, 2011

Sunbridge launches SecureAuth launches at Salesforce’s Cloudforce Japan 2011.  http://alturl.com/29kre

SecureAuth launches documentation portal!

SecureAuth is pleased to be able to share the same great documentation we follow when preforming our integrations with you, our customers!  Have a new project that you’d like to utilize SecureAuth for?  Take a peek here! DOC PORTAL

SecureAuth 6.2 Released

We’ve been very busy with the release of the SecureAuth Identity Enforcement Platform Ver. 6.2! A few of the new Features and Benefits Include: Enhanced fingerprinting -SecureAuth IEP’s fingerprinting now includes support for the hardware serial number of mobile devices including iPhones and iPads, and the hard drive serial number for Windows so these devices [...]

Datamation – Cloud Computing SSO and IdM Tools: Buying Guide

For Dave Leiker, the Web and Electronic Media Manager for the Emporia, Kansas Unified School District #253, managing Internet access for over 5,000 students, teachers and staff presented a unique set of challenges. IT administrators needed to restrict web traffic while managing student email account activity. At the same time, Leiker was in the process [...]

Google Apps Meets US Federal Security Standards

Article by Warwick Ashford [...] Officials at Unisys say the Google deployment provides two-factor authentication using technology from SecureAuth, a rival of the widely-used RSA SecurID system. Read the full story here.

First federal agency brings email to cloud, cuts costs in half

Article by Derek Meed [...] the new system complies with federal security standards. Interestingly, the authentication software came from SecureAuth, a rival to the much larger RSA SecurID enterprise that was hacked earlier this year. Read the full story here.

GSA moves all 17,000 employee email accounts to the cloud

Article by: Aliya Sternstein [...]The verification technology is from SecureAuth, a rival of the widely-used RSA SecurID system that suffered brand damage when hackers earlier this year stole sensitive information related to the product.Read the full story here.

SecureAuth Expands Channel to Managed Service Providers

SecureAuth Expands channel to Managed Service Providers.  Read the full story here.

SecureAuth Offers MSP Partner Program

Article by Laura Stotler, MSPNEWS Contributing Editor – SecureAuth Offers MSP Partner Program.  Read the full story here.

Network World Recommends SecureAuth

Network World just released its “Top tips for turning Android into a Business Phone” – one of the key suggestions was SecureAuth – a recommended mechanism for authentication for these Android devices.  Read the full article.

SecureAuth named to Datamation’s “7 Cloud Computing Security Emerging Vendors” list.

SecureAuth named to Datamation’s  “7 Cloud Computing Security Emerging Vendors” list.To read more click here

SecureAuth Delivers Two-Factor Authentication for Seamless Cloud Computing

Article by Laura StotlerTMCnet Contributing Editor The reduced IT expenses, flexibility and scalability of cloud computing solutions are well-known. But one of the most important components in a seamless cloud experience is strong user authentication to protect applications and data, and many companies fail to address this when implementing cloud solutions. SecureAuth Corporation has made [...]

RSA: Quest One Identity Solution Moves Identity and Access Management From Technology-Driven Burden to Business-Driven Benefit

RSA 2011 News Facts: With its latest acquisitions and investments in identity and access management, Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) has expanded Quest One Identity Solution to help organizations address today’s pressing identity and access management needs. Quest One simplifies identity and access management (IAM) to increase security, efficiency, and compliance by unifying identities, roles, [...]

A Quest for Secure Authentication

Article by Dave Kearns, Network World Some companies like to partner with IdM vendors either on specific projects or for strategic solutions. Some companies like to acquire IdM vendors to either round out their product offering or to provide specific tools to solve a specific need for their customers. And some companies do both. Quest [...]

Quest Acquires Security Software Company

Article by By Sarah Tolkoff Aliso Viejo-based business software maker Quest Software Inc. on Monday said it purchased Morrisville, N.C.-based e-DMZ Security LLC, a privately held maker of security software for corporate networks. Terms of the deal—presumably small—weren’t disclosed. E-DMZ’s software ensures that privileged and other “sensitive” users are properly controlled and audited to meet [...]

SecureAuth Rolls Out Multifactor Authentication, SSO For Smartphones

Article by Neil Roiter Enterprises can enable secure end user access via smartphones using the latest version of SecureAuth, which provides certificate-based two-factor authentication, single sign-on and identity management services. SecureAuth is also extending support for securing access to cloud-based applications. SecureAuth Identity Enforcement Platform (IEP) 6.0 extends the product’s capabilities from desktops and laptops [...]

5 Things We Learned Today

Article by Larry Walsh Server suppliers are hardly in short supply in the North American market, so why would Acer America gamble launching a server and storage line against rivals such as Dell, IBM, Oracle (Sun) and Cisco? The answer may be found in the attached sales opportunities and the “innovator’s dilemma.” Acer’s server and storage [...]

Hacker Wars, Social Revolution and The End of the World: All at RSA 2011

Article by Online Crime Bytes SAN FRANCISCO—A hacker war erupted just before the start of the RSA Security Conference at the San Francisco Moscone Center on February 14-17. The Federal arm of well-known security consulting company, HBGary, succumbed to a sophisticated social engineering attack by the Anonymous hacker group that accessed and sent HBGary’s internal [...]

New vendors unveil technologies for cloud computing security

By Marcia Savage, Site Editor 09 Feb 2011 | SearchCloudSecurity.com The cloudcomputing security market is heating up with new startups aiming to address enterprise concernsabout data security and regulatory compliance in the cloud. CipherCloud on Thursday launched its data protection technology, a Web proxy that providesencryption and tokenization for data before it’s sent to a [...]

Quest invests in SecureAuth

Article by: Jackson Shaw In a previous post I talked about our strategic investment in Symplified. Here I am again talking about another strategic investment we just made in SecureAuth, an Irvine-based company in California. I really like what SecureAuth is doing with their products. Not only have they developed a great product that enables [...]

McAfee Selects SecureAuth SSO for its SIA Program

McAfee welcomes the SecureAuth Corporation  to its Sales Teaming Program. Partners in the Sales Teaming Program complement the McAfee product portfolio, and enable the McAfee sales force and channel to drive more complete security solution relationships with enterprise customers. “We’re proud of the sustained expansion the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance program has enjoyed,” said Ed [...]

SecureAuth Successfully Closes Funding Round

OC Business Journal, July 28th:  Irvine-based security software firm MultiFactor Corp. on Thursday said it raised $3 million in a round of financing. The latest round brings MultiFactor’s total funding to date to $11 million. All of the company’s funding is from private and individual investors, whose names weren’t disclosed. The company plans to use [...]

SecureAuth – Smartphone Security Best Practices

Even if new platforms are relatively untested from a security standpoint, that doesn’t mean they can’t be secured. As with the PC, most smartphone users will likely get their security from third parties. A number of security startups already have smartphones in their sights. These include authentication vendors, such as MultiFactor Corporation with its SecureAuth [...]

How to handle identity in a heavily regulated industry: SecureAuth featured as go-to solution for USA Federal Credit Union

Carolyn James, CIO of USA Federal Credit Union: We were in the process of installing a separate authentication and identity enforcement system for our employees, one that would give them secure remote access to internal applications via VPNs. The solution provider, MultiFactor Corporation, learned of our online banking troubles and informed us that their system, [...]

Bucking the Trend-How Security Will Drive Cloud Adoption Not Hinder It

Security, when done properly, is an argument in favor of cloud adoption.

MultiFactor Announces Availability of the Best Cloud Identity Provider in the World: You

SecureAuth allows any enterprise to enable their existing user directory for secure authentication and access control to public cloud applications AND in-house applications simultaneously MultiFactor SecureAuth announces the first and only integrated 2-factor authentication solution that enables an enterprise to become an instant identity provider (IdP) for cloud based applications such as Google Docs and [...]

Juniper SSL VPN Product Manager – SecureAuth, Strong Auth Without Key Fobs

Juniper SSL VPN Product Manager, Kevin Peterson, gives strong praise for MultiFactor SecureAuth – especially those in Health Care. “I encourage anyone reading this to check out this case study, especially if you are in healthcare:  Carolinas HealthCare System Simplifies Authentication with SecureAuth.  Having worked in this vertical myself for many years, I knew that the [...]

MultiFactor Announces Availability of the Best Cloud Identity Provider in the World: You

SecureAuth allows any enterprise to enable their existing user directory for secure authentication and access control to public cloud applications AND in-house applications simultaneously MultiFactor SecureAuth announces the first and only integrated 2-factor authentication solution that enables an enterprise to become an instant identity provider (IdP) for cloud based applications such as Google Docs and [...]

MultiFactor Named in 2010 Top Ten Hot Trends

CIOUpdate.com quotes Craig, Lund, CEO of MultiFactor on cloud security for an article on “2010 Top Ten Hot Trends”.   “According to Craig Lund, CEO of MultiFactor Corporation, a provider of identity enforcement solutions, Cloud security will come down to two things: 1) the integrity of the application and its data, wherever that data resides, and 2) [...]

SecureAuth 2-Factor SSO Certified and Available on Salesforce.com AppExchange

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MultiFactor Corporation, the innovator in 2-factor authentication, web application security and secure cloud authentication solutions announces SecureAuth has been tested and certified by salesforce.com. Effective immediately, the affordable, enterprise-grade strong authentication is available on salesforce.com’s AppExchange marketplace. SecureAuth’s unique design enables seamless single sign on (SSO) while transparently enforcing 2-factor authentication into internally-hosted [...]

Cisco Publishes SecureAuth/Cisco ASA Case Study

The MutliFactor SecureAuth/Cisco ASA case study can now be found on the Cisco web site.   The case study involves MultiFactor SecureAuth being utilized by Mentor Graphics for second factor authentication for remote access into the Mentor Graphic’s network.The SecureAuth solution supports thousands of engineers, sales executives, and other employees at remote offices and on-site customer [...]

SecureAuth Certified for Salesforce.com

MultiFactor has achieved security certification for Salesforce.com authentication and has been listed on the Salesforce’s AppExchange.SecureAuth® is a cost effective 2nd factor authentication product that uniquely enables an enterprise to retain important authentication information at the enterprise, and apply the authentication to salesforce.com.   SecureAuth allows a user to retain their authentication credentials and utilize those [...]

MultiFactor – Cloud Computing Vendors Shaping the Emerging Cloud

Datamation – As its name implies, MultiFactor is a multi-factor authentication company. However, MultiFactor’s all-software solution, SecureAuth, does more than standard authentication. Designed from the ground up to work with web services, it is more accurately described as an “identity enforcement solution.”DataMation – Cloud Computing Vendors Shaping the Emerging Cloud

Kuppinger Cole Discusses MultiFactor Cloud Strategy

Tim Cole of the Kuppinger Cole identity management analyst group, in a article titled “Identity – Last Man Standing“, has a dialogue with Tom Stewart, CFO for MultiFactor, discussing SecureAuth, enterprise directories and the “Cloud”.The discussion includes MultiFactor’s vision of the Identity-Centric enterprise where SecureAuth enables an enterprise to utilize their internal directory for both [...]

MultiFactor Announces SecureAuth for salesforce.com

IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MultiFactor Corporation, an innovator in Single Sign-On 2-factor authentication, web application security and VPN Authentication solutions, announces the strongest, most flexible authentication and provisioning solution on the market is now available for salesforce.com. SecureAuth addresses both the provisioning and authentication complexities associated with cloud-based solutions. Users are automatically provisioned and strongly authenticated while [...]

SecureAuth 5.0.6 Supports Cisco VPN and Cloud Authentication

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MultiFactor Corporation, an innovator in 2-factor authentication, web application security and VPN Authenticationsolutions today announced the release of SecureAuth 5.0.6, enabling true secure cloud computing. The new release of SecureAuth’s proven two-factor authentication solution for Cisco IPSec and SSL VPNs now incorporates a secure Single Sign On experience for cloud based applications as [...]

MultiFactor Announces SecureAuth for SSO

Secureauth for SSO provides a secure 2-Factor authentication experience across disparate vpn, web and federated resources.

Secureauth Integrates with Juniper for KDC authentication

Enterprises are looking to Juniper to provide security and SSO for user access to their Microsoft IIS based resources, namely OWA (Outlook Web Access), SharePoint and ASP.NET applications.   All of these applications can be set to utilize IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication).   Juniper recognized this and provided Kerberos support for Microsoft servers with IWA support.  SecureAuth [...]

SecureAuth Enables Enterprises to Become PCI Compliant

SecureAuth meets or exceeds all requirements for access to external connections into the networks and connections to and from the authorization and settlement environment. These specific requirements are called out in PCI DSS Compliance Requirement 8. Enclosed is a mapping of the specific Requirement 8 PCI DSS requirements, information on how the Security Standards Council [...]

MultiFactor Joins Juniper Networks J-Partner Solution Alliance Program

IRVINE, Calif. – (Business Wire) MultiFactor Corporation, an innovator in 2-factor authentication, web application security and SSL VPN Authentication solutions, today announced that it has joined the Juniper Networks J-Partner Solution Alliance Program. MultiFactor’s flagship product SecureAuth® integrates seamlessly with the Juniper IVE to provide the best network security any two-factor authentication system can offer.

SecureAuth integrates into CA SiteMinder Web Access Manager

LAS VEGAS, NV, November 19, 2008 (PressRelelasePoint) — MultiFactor Corporation, an innovator in 2-factor authentication, web application security and SSL VPN authentication solutions today announced it has joined the CA Technology Partner Program as a provider of strong user authentication services. CA SiteMinder customers will now have the added security of MultiFactor’s SecureAuth, a convenient [...]

SSLVPN Vulnerabilities – Client Certificates offer a superior defense over OTP devices

Blackhat ’08 disclosed several SSLVPN and DNS vulnerabilities that caused several people to sit up and take notice. Some of these new exploits performed a brilliant Man-in-the-Middle attack on SSLVPN tunnels. I’ll walk you through how using certificates, instead of OTP tokens, for second factor authentication can increase the security of your SSLVPN solution against [...]

Multi-Factor Authentication Inc. Names Tom Stewart Chief Financial Officer

IRVINE, Calif. — Multi-Factor Authentication, Inc., (MFA) a provider of cost effective and secure end-user authentication solutions for online transactions, today announced that Thomas C. Stewart has joined the company as chief financial officer. Read more..