FiPass enables companies that become FiPass Secured Sites (FSSs) to offer their customers a strengthened layer of security to guard against identity theft and the potential for unauthorized access to online accounts, transactions, and personal data. The FiPass service gives end users the convenience of using a single token to access multiple Web sites. Any online business can operate in the FSS community with a common platform of strong, two-factor authentication. The platform is seamlessly integrated into a site’s existing security systems, thereby strengthening those systems rather than replacing them. These Internet-based companies benefit from the prevention of online fraud due to cracking of customer passwords.
Approximately eight million people at over 6,000 corporations and government agencies have used token-based authentication technology successfully for over 20 years. FiPass brings the same proven technology to the Internet for the benefit of companies and their customers, enabling users to access any site utilizing the FiPass service, via a single token.
I’ve been a publisher in the technology business for over two decades and we’ve reported extensively on the increase of identity theft leading to fraud, states Joe Levy, CEO and President of CXO Media Inc., whose publications include CIO Magazine and Darwin Magazine. Levy added, It’s absolutely the right time for FiPass to be offering their authentication service and I strongly suggest that any online business should become a FiPass Secured Site.
Our partnership with FiPass is very strategic to Secure Computing as it extends the availability of strong authentication from organizations to consumers, said Carr Biggerstaff, Senior Vice President at Secure Computing. With SafeWord, FiPass provides consumers with the ability to gain secure, authenticated access to a multitude of e-commerce services with a single FiPass token.
SafeWord brings strong AAA (authentication, authorization and accountability) to e-business enterprises in Fortune 500 companies spanning a wide spectrum of industries, including health care, finance, utilities and federal, state and local government. SafeWord’s one-time, dynamic passwords provide highly secure, strong user authentication for secure access to applications, Web servers and network resources. With SafeWord authorization, administrators can control each user’s access based on the user’s needs.
Richard Stiennon, a senior analyst for market research firm Gartner, added, Security services such as firewalls, intrusion detection, and virus scanning have already started to move into the cloud, in other words become network based services. It is a natural evolution for strong authentication to become a cloud based service. FiPass Founder and CEO, Sean Brennan, noted, The growing trend in the online world involves issues of security and identity verification. We are thrilled that FiPass could lead the way in the evolution of authentication through the development of our Web-based platform. Brennan added, One-time passcode tokens have a proven history of protecting employees at their given corporations. Today, with the growth of the Internet, it’s imperative to expand this time-tested technology through FiPass, enabling companies to offer the benefits of two-factor authentication to their customers. Brennan concluded, We selected Secure Computing because of their superior software and token technology, which includes unlimited scalability.
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