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CRYPTOCard
IT Security - San Francisco,CA,USA, June 20, 2008 -
Vendors selling managed authentication services, however, offer a third choice for password management: have a third-party company take over the chore of running a two-factor authentication system.
DC Energy's Experience
DC Energy, a proprietary trading firm that invests in energy markets, opted for the managed approach. The company, which employs about 50 people, was looking for a better way to secure VPN (virtual private network) access. “For years, we did what all small companies do: have a password policy and try to enforce strong passwords,” recalled Ware Adams, managing director of DC Energy.
But DC Energy could never be certain remote users weren’t taking the password-on-a-Post-it route. The company decided that two-factor authentication was the way to go and initially pursued authentication as an in-house solution. According to Adams, the company set up a trial version of CRYPTOCard Inc.’s CRYPTO-Shield two-factor authentication solution. “It worked as advertised,” Adams said. “But the main hurdle for use was, given that this [authentication system] is absolutely critical to our functioning, installing it would have required multiple redundant servers.”
Against this backdrop, Pegasus Technologies, a security specialist firm that helped with DC Energy’s authentication pilot, introduced the company to CRYPTOCard’s CRYPTO-MAS (Managed Authentication Service). The service was launched in 2007. “It took all of the hardware administration out of our hands,” Adams said of CRYPTO-MAS.
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