Secure Identity Management Solution

Business Value – for Extranets

Organizations today are feeling intense pressure to lower the costs of doing business while satisfying stakeholder demands for real-time, personalized access to sensitive information.

Delivering information and services through a Web portal helps to foster strong relationships with customers, partners, employees or citizens. As well, leveraging a Web services architecture that integrates business processes both within the enterprise and between partners provides faster and more automated business processes.

Executing on these strategies offers many challenges:

• deploying a Web portal solution that is expected to grow in functionality and scale in user size can be very cost prohibitive
• managing large user populations - including employees, customers, partners, and citizens - can be quite cumbersome, especially if delivering content personalization features
• managing identities for users, applications and devices through multiple administration points increases the risk of unauthorized access
• integrating strong authentication and other security features across all applications can be expensive and complex
• adhering to corporate policy can be very difficult without a common policy enforcement point for all Web and Web services applications

The Entrust Secure Identity Management Solution is designed to help organizations overcome the complexity of implementing identity and access management strategies that include the Web and Web services environments:

Helps reduce costs

• centralized provisioning of user, application and device identities helps streamline management processes
• cost-effective pricing model lets organizations pay only for what they want today, with the flexibility to add incremental capacity as desired for supporting more Web applications and users
• user self-service helps reduce support requirements, enabling IT to focus on more strategic initiatives
• reliability of the solution results in increased uptime for portal and Web services applications, thereby helping to reduce Help desk and service costs

Speeds time to market

• tight integration of 'best-of-breed' Web and Web services security capabilities enables streamlined deployment and management of applications
• organizations can choose the portal security functionality they want today with the confidence that they can extend to a Web services architecture
• organizations can capitalize on a 'single source' approach from a trusted leader in identity and access management solutions and services

Provides proven security functionality

• single point of control for authentication (including strong two-factor approaches using Entrust IdentityGuard or Entrust USB Tokens) and authorization for extranets
• policy-based authentication and authorization via standards like SAML for both Web and Web services applications
• single point of policy enforcement, audit and administration for all Web portal and Web services applications helps reduce risk of non-compliance with legislation
• FIPS-140 validated, Common Criteria certified, first to receive the WebTrust Seal for CAs
• Open Systems Advisors "Crossroads A-List Award" winner - 2000, 2001

Learn more about how the Entrust Secure Identity Management Solution can help address extranet needs.

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