RSA Via Solution Catching Fire…Here’s Why

RSA’s latest announcement highlights how the RSA Via portfolio of identity products, and specifically RSA Via Access, is gaining momentum in the marketplace. What’s more:  customers, partners, technology integrators and analysts are loudly voicing their support. This enthusiasm in a crowded field leads to the question: how does RSA do it? Here are three ways:

Identities Stay Home, Hybrid Cloud Style

Every breach has an identity component. It’s no wonder that having identities synced into cloud platforms, as offered by many of our competitors, is the #1 objection to moving to an Identity-as-a-Service model, and RSA Via Access is designed to solve the problem with its hybrid-cloud approach. Simply put, sensitive user credentials remain safely ensconced on premises, while benefiting from the efficiency and scale of an as-a-service solution.  An on-premises Identity Router (IDR) is engineered to keep sensitive information within the organization, where it belongs, and offers centralized management while successfully brokering authentication events from the cloud between LDAP, on-premises apps and cloud apps.

This hybrid approach can also utilize customers’ RSA SecurID deployment, leveraging the IDR to extend their world-class token technology to support SaaS and web applications.

To help secure identities, RSA Via Access is bolstered by the full RSA Via portfolio, RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance.  Together, they offer an end-to-end solution that is built to provide a single, central view of identity, resources, entitlements and access to help organizations regain control over identities and benefit from global access. They know who has access to what, can securely manage access, and can pinpoint anomalies/unauthorized access changes. Check out the demo.

Enterprise-Class Scale

Faced with a proliferation of SaaS applications around the organization, many enterprises settle for quick, band-aid solutions.. As a result, they build separate identity infrastructures, or “Islands of Identity,” that create a chasm between these apps and other legacy systems. This limits visibility into – and management of — these infrastructures.  Nirvana for most companies would be to manage access to all SaaS, legacy, customer applications and on-premise web apps from a central platform. RSA Via Access helps support this, with newly introduced localization features designed to offer portal access in a variety of languages for global scale.

 Balanced Security and Convenience

There no longer has to be a tradeoff between security, convenience and cost. Many organizations think they can only optimize one of these variables at the expense of the others. Organizations really need a spectrum of authentication options. Not one size fits all. RSA’s commitment to easier and better authentication is demonstrated by our growing ecosystem of authentication methods. In addition to Apple’s TouchID fingerprint verification, Tap or Shake to Approve an authentication request, and one-time passcode prompts, users will also be able to confirm push notifications on an Apple Watch –further improving a user’s experience, and helping enable quick and secure authenticate.  Additionally, the integration of RSA Via Access with RSA SecurID authentication helps increase the number of authentication methods to cloud apps, enabling further optimization of convenience and security.

RSA Via Access is engineered to offer a set of mobile-optimized authentication methods that deliver convenience to users combined with contextual level of authentication that provides as much strength (ex. biometric, RSA SecurID token) as needed. After all, not all applications are the same.

For more information on RSA Via, visit rsavia.com.

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