Identity Management - Overview

In recent years, enterprises and government agencies have added identity management (IDM) applications to control access to corporate data and networks. IDM applications enable a secure, single sign-on (SSO) process via portals and intranets to a wide range of business critical resources. These applications also increase regulatory compliance and improve network and system security by authenticating the user before allowing access to the requested resource.

Unfortunately, the default level of authentication for IDM applications is simple username/password, which is vulnerable to identity fraud. In the past, organizations that wanted to increase the strength of their IDM authentication had to choose between expensive OTP tokens or hardware smart cards, or a complicated PKI deployment.

Arcot WebFort is the right strong authentication solution for your IDM application, whether you want to upgrade from simple username/passwords or replace expensive hardware tokens or cards. Arcot WebFort combined with the ArcotID secure software credential is a 100% software, two-factor, strong authentication solution. It adds the strength of PKI to any login process while maintaining the simplicity of a username/password interface.

Your users' login experience and your business processes do not have to change. You can add PKI-strength authentication to the SSO or access management products you already have. There are no additional elements of a PKI infrastructure to install or deploy—WebFort includes everything you need and provides the lowest cost of ownership of any two-factor authentication solution on the market today.

WebFort integrates with all major IDM vendors to verify and protect your users' identity.