MobilePass - Authenticating Users on the Go!

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Table of ContentsStrong Authentication Grows Up...........................................................................................2Mobile Workforce Productivity on the Move..........................................................................2MobilePass to the Rescue.......................................................................................................3Key Benefits of MobilePass.....................................................................................................3Conclusion............................................................................................................................4
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As progressive organizations continue to enable their workforces with mobile technologies, there is now an opportunity to expand the capabilities of these devices to encompass a wide range of activities, including two-factor authentication for remote network access. Commonly used mobile devices offer a great supplement to existing two-factor authentication form factors.
Ensuring that data is accessible only to the intended recipients is good business. Data in the wrong hands may result in severe business and legal liabilities (e.g. proprietary business information in the hands of competitors may diminish a competitive advantage). Similarly, customers' private data (e.g. credit card information, health records) must be protected from unauthorized access to ward off potential legal liabilities. In fact, stricter compliance requirements in many cases require that enterprises ascertain identities of the users before providing them access to sensitive data.
Strong authentication using hardware tokens has proved to be a popular solution for establishing user identities before granting access. A growing number of enterprises have adopted hardware tokens as the de facto authentication standard for their remote users. Token-based authentication allows enterprises to easily and cost-effectively add strong authentication to existing remote access gateways.
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