Verizon has enhanced its set of Enterprise Identity Management offerings.
The enhancements are expected to improve the way companies authenticate the identities of employees, partners and customers and increases an enterprise’s ability to fend off data breaches caused by ID theft and fraud, said the company.
The enhanced suite of services is delivered ‘as-a-service’ via the cloud that allows enterprises to reduce the complexity and risk associated with identity management programs.
The enhanced cloud-based authentication offerings services include identity registration- a self-service portal to enable online identity proofing and support for automated online knowledge-based assessments.
Credential provisioning service provides multiple assurance-level authentication to support a dozen authentication approaches, including one-time passwords sent to a mobile device, public key infrastructure, interactive voice response, hardware and software tokens, and IP and geo-location mapping.
Authentication service provides risk-based transactional authentication via managed gateway authentication and managed federation services.
Verizon security and industry solutions vice president Peter Tippett said the company has found that authentication methods used by enterprises today are either inadequate or difficult and expensive.
"Until now, there’s been no single service that delivers a total-solution offering that includes the critical features such as registering users, providing identity proofing and issuing identity credentials required to truly meet the needs of today’s enterprise," Tippett said.
