SecureData Security, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings and a sub-Saharan distributor for Passlogix, today announced that the latter's v-GO Access Accelerator Suite, an integrated set of single sign-on, authentication and provisioning enablement solutions, has been recognised by SC Magazine as one of 20 products that have made a significant impact on the IT security marketplace over the past two decades.
Editor Peter Stephenson noted that the v-GO platform has "dominated the access management market" since the initial product in the suite - v-GO Single Sign-On - pioneered the enterprise single sign-on space in 1996.
"These (v-GO) modules take over much of the administrator-intensive tasks that slow down and complicate access management. We have reviewed most of the v-GO suite and the one thing that is obvious in each case is that the individual products are clearly part of an access management ecosystem," Stephenson writes in the magazine's November 2009 issue.
He also praised the platform for its "simplicity, comprehensive feature set and ease of use" as well as for enabling enterprises to assemble the specific solution they need from the various modules in the suite.
SC Magazine has previously awarded 'Best Buy' honours and five-star reviews to several components of the v-GO suite.
"v-GO's longevity, 15 million-license market penetration and global reach clearly demonstrate the value of the platform, but it is always gratifying to receive this kind of endorsement from experts who evaluate hundreds of products every year," commented Passlogix CEO Marc Boroditsky. "It validates the work we are doing, the differentiators we have built into the platform, and the important role that v-GO continues to play in helping organisations meet their password and access challenges."
v-GO's sign-on and access management tools help organisations improve business productivity, strengthen information security and regulatory compliance readiness, and streamline identity management deployments. The platform is anchored by v-GO Single Sign-On, which allows users to access any Windows, mainframe or Web application with a single Windows logon by automating username and password entry for each account.
Other v-GO solutions extend single sign-on to off-site employees, third-party partners and contractors from a corporate Web page; automate user sign-on and sign-off of kiosk sessions; securely manage shared passwords for administrators and others who must share account IDs; enable strong authentication to applications, desktops and networks without expensive custom integration; pre-load user IDs and passwords to the v-GO repository for easy provisioning; and automate resets of Windows logon passwords.
The v-GO suite scales to tens of thousands of users, enables wizard-based integration that eliminates the need to write scripts or connectors even to home-grown or legacy applications, and installs on existing servers without adding dedicated or proprietary hardware. These features lower the total cost of ownership and allow organisations to receive rapid payback on their investment.
For further information, please contact Mark Linnell at tel. +27 11 790 2500; fax +27 11 790 2599; e-mail markl@securedata.co.za.
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Passlogix
Passlogix is the developer of the v-GO Access Accelerator Suite, the leading solution set for speeding user access to applications throughout the extended enterprise by eliminating critical pain points in sign-on, provisioning and authentication processes. With more than 10 million licences sold, the v-GO suite improves business efficiency, strengthens security and compliance, and dramatically reduces IDM system deployment times. The company's patented technology - launched in 1996 with the market's first usable enterprise single sign-on solution - shortens implementation and payback cycles by adapting to any existing infrastructure without the need for custom coding or replacing legacy hardware or software. Passlogix is headquartered in New York City with offices throughout the United States, UK and Asia.
SecureData
SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity information security solutions and risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services.
SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed solutions, devices and appliances for the perimeter, data centres, applications, network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, pre-sales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical.
For more information, visit SecureData at http://www.securedata.co.za.
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