RSA delivers comprehensive user authentication for Web apps

RSA Security has introduced the RSA SecurID Web Portfolio offering, a comprehensive family of Web-oriented user authentication products and services designed to make it easy for businesses to positively identify who they are dealing with online.

Based on RSA Security`s industry-leading RSA SecurID two-factor user authentication technology, the RSA SecurID Web Portfolio provides e-security elements needed by corporate portals, e-marketplaces, ASP-hosted applications and other Web-based business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications to get to market quickly with secure Web sites.

The RSA SecurID Web Portfolio offering gives organisations a "zero-footprint" solution that is designed to enable secure access to information and transactions from any place at any time without having to deploy additional desktop or mobile computer client software.

The Web Portfolio includes:

• Any combination of RSA SecurID authenticators, including hardware tokens, key fobs and software tokens (smart card options are also available);

• RSA ACE/Server software, the authentication management component of RSA Security`s SecurID Web Portfolio, which controls both the verification of authentication requests and the administration of security policy;

• RSA ACE/Agent software for protecting specific platforms and applications, including two enhanced versions that provide additional Web access authentication capabilities for Windows NT and Netscape/iPlanet platforms; and

• The recently announced RSA SecurID Select co-branding service that allows organisations to imprint their corporate logo on RSA SecurID authenticators alongside the renowned RSA SecurID brand.

"It`s more crucial than ever to prove individuals` identities prior to their making financial transactions or accessing sensitive data over the Web, and user authentication is the solution," said Stuart Harrison, technical consultant at RSA Security South Africa. "More than 400 of the world`s leading organisations are already identifying users with RSA SecurID authentication to protect their B2B, B2C, intranet and ASP applications, and to ensure the authenticity of their e-business transactions."

According to Harrison, authentication is a key enabler of e-business, helping create a trusted environment and providing much greater security for protecting digital credentials than passwords, which can be easily guessed or stolen.

Enhanced RSA ACE/Agent Software

Two enhanced versions of RSA ACE/Agent software, part of the RSA SecurID Web Portfolio solution, are designed to provide additional Web access authentication capabilities for Windows NT and Netscape/iPlanet platforms. RSA ACE/Agent software for Windows NT is intended to enhance native Windows NT security by providing two-factor user authentication to protect Microsoft IIS Web Server, Outlook Web Access, Exchange Server, Site Server, Site Server Commerce Edition and Proxy Server, as well as NT domains and networks. The new version is intended to protect multiple virtual servers on the same physical Windows NT host, with the ability to customise authentication pages for each server. The product`s multi-language support is intended to enable localisation by automatically presenting Web access pages in the proper language based on users` default browser setting.

RSA ACE/Agent for Netscape/iPlanet Web Servers software is designed to protect Netscape and iPlanet Web servers, including added support for iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition. RSA ACE/Agent supports IIS Web servers on Windows NT and Windows 2000, Netscape and iPlanet Web servers on Windows NT and Unix platforms, and Lotus Domino Web servers on Windows NT.