PREVENT DATA BREACHES WITH MFA
Cybercriminals don’t have to innovate much to succeed. They just have to widen their net. For years, the number one attack vector for security breaches has remained weak, default or stolen passwords from phishing and other attack methods. That’s why it’s never been more important to confirm the identity of your employees, partners and customers, and it’s also never been easier. With a modern multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution, you can quickly increase security without sacrificing user experience.
MFA, MODERNIZED
With a modern MFA solution, you can ensure that users are who they say they are. They can prove their identity by providing at least two pieces of evidence among something they know, something they have and something they are. Many organizations have deployed MFA only to find burdensome admin experiences, poor user experiences that hurt productivity and the high costs of managing these solutions on-premises. Modern MFA improves user experience and security through context-based adaptive authentication and broad self-service capabilities. And admins can use APIs, SDKs and integration kits to make implementation with existing infrastructure a breeze. All of this in a cloud-based solution means minimal effort and oversight to run effectively. If you’re evaluating MFA providers, read our checklist for five key things you should consider.
SEAMLESS MFA FOR
HYBRID IT ENVIRONMENTS
Today’s enterprises prioritize cloud-first initiatives. But the reality is that large enterprises still have many existing on-premises applications that can’t easily move to the cloud. To effectively secure all of the applications in your hybrid IT environment and cloud transition, your enterprise needs an adaptive MFA solution that supports all your use cases for both on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
A SMOOTH MFA ROLLOUT EVERY TIME
You can implement strong authentication in a matter of minutes. To make deployments easy, you’ll need out-of-the-box integrations to VPNs and applications like Office 365, as well as simple-to-use APIs. Also, self-service features for your end users and simple administration can make your MFA rollout effortless. Improving security doesn’t have to be a headache.
THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION FOR MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION
OPPORTUNITY
GlaxoSmithKline employees utilize a variety of on-premises and custom applications, and GSK wanted to make accessing these applications as secure and straightforward an experience as possible. They were in search of a multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) solution that was easy to manage, easy to maintain and built on open standards.
RESULT
GSK selected PingFederate and PingID as their primary MFA provider. Since then, help desk calls related to PingID have been extremely low at significantly less than 1 percent of enrollments. IAM Solutions Architect Brian Lewis says, “Ping has been easy to maintain, and support has been excellent.”
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