Frost & Sullivan Recognizes the Uniqueness of SafeNet's Authentication Solution for Cloud-Based Enterprise Applications

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes the Uniqueness of

SafeNet's Authentication Solution for Cloud-

Based Enterprise Applications

PR Newswire

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, July 2, 2012

- Unlike traditional offerings, the BlackShield Cloud™ system offers end-to-end

automation for provisioning, administration and management

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California

, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent

analysis of the cloud-based authentication services market, Frost & Sullivan

recognizes SafeNet (erstwhile Cryptocard, acquired by SafeNet in

March 2012

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with the 2012 European Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award for the

development of BlackShield Cloud™, a multi-factor cloud-based authentication

system.

As the mobile workforce continues to scale up, enterprises are constantly

seeking efficient, low-cost authentication mechanisms to protect organizational

data and deliver secured access to employees and end users. In this regard,

SafeNet's cloud-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) system for enterprises

is unique, as it brings together cloud, token-less mechanisms, and automation

to meet the changing requirements of authentication.

The innovative element of SafeNet's solution is the vast token range it offers,

including software tokens, grid-based authentication, out-of-band (OOB) SMS,

USB hardware tokens, keypad tokens to enable challenge/response, credit

card-style one-time password (OTP) tokens, and support for Open

AuTHentication (OATH)-compliant tokens. This extensive availability of non-

expiring and re-assignable tokens differentiates SafeNet from traditional

authentication vendors. Moreover, the SafeNet platform offers an effective log-

on mechanism for any token type across all resources accessed by users from

their internal enterprise network through public and private cloud applications.

"The technical excellence of the SafeNet team is reflected by the ability to

deliver OTPs on-demand in a Web-based business environment with a great

level of flexibility, without compromising on security," said Frost & Sullivan

Senior Research Analyst Charanya Balasubramanian. "Utilizing standards-based

authentication protocols for the generation of passcodes and user PINs,

BlackShield Cloud empowers organizations to determine the robustness level of

their authentication methods based on the organizational requirements."

As a result, highly confidential data assets can have strong authentication

mechanisms, while less valuable content can be accessed through simpler

authentication methods. In addition, BlackShield Cloud is backed by multi-

tenant architecture to support comprehensive management of multiple

accounts. Leveraging OpenID protocols, SafeNet has increased the number of

PoPs to cope up with scalability requirements, location data privacy, and

regulatory requirements. In addition, the company has acquired the intellectual

property (IP) for GrIDsure to support grid-based tokens.

Further, Blackshield employs RADIUS protocols to support network access

devices such as VPNs and firewalls. The ability to add two-factor authentication

using the BlackShield authentication programming interface (API) makes the