By Telecom Lead Team: Entrust it is extending its Entrust
IdentityGuard strong authentication platform to offer smart credentials on
mobile devices for enterprise-grade security.
The company will gain from near-field communication (NFC)
and Bluetooth standards.
Entrust embeds biometrics and digital certificates on
smartphones to create trusted identity credentials for stronger, more
convenient enterprise authentication.
“As a result of IT consumerization, enterprises are
now required to properly authenticate devices. With our new NFC and Bluetooth
capabilities, organizations may use today’s popular mobile devices as advanced
authenticators. Entrust solutions can empower enterprises to use the mobile
channel to deliver improved total cost of ownership and uphold critical
compliance standards, while reducing the complexity of enterprise-grade
authentication solutions,” said Bill Conner, president and CEO of Entrust.
The software-based Entrust IdentityGuard versatile
authentication platform enables organizations to use biometrics and digital certificates
and mobile devices as smart credentials for logical access to corporate and
wireless networks, web authentication, and physical access to buildings and
other facilities.
For even greater convenience, NFC (physical and logical)
and Bluetooth (logical) may be used to streamline mobile-based authentication.
The platform is compatible with Apple iOS, RIM BlackBerry
and Google Android, and leverages industry-standard technologies, including
Personal Identity Verification (PIV), for higher security and interoperability
than proprietary systems.
Entrust IdentityGuard also introduces new API
architecture designed to allow for tight integration with today’s leading
mobile device management (MDM), identity and access management (IAM), and
public key infrastructure (PKI) vendors.
The enhanced Entrust IdentityGuard solution will also
include certificate-onboarding to mobile devices for certificate-based
authentication and S/MIME-based decryption and signing of email. Advanced
secure email capabilities include synchronization, key history and encryption
across enterprise desktops and mobile platforms.
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