PortalGuard has Great Success at the 2010 SharePointPro Summit & Expo
Filed under: General Information, PortalGuard, SharePoint Authentication, SharePointPro Summit & Expo, Uncategorized
Thanks for Stopping By!
We first would like to extend a thank you out to those of you who stopped by our booth at the SharePointPro Summit this year. It was fascinating to hear about how SharePoint authentication and security is being handled, what specific requirements you are looking for, and how PortalGuard or Tailored Authentication could help you with your SharePoint security needs.
If you did not have a chance to see us at the show, then we encourage you to visit PortalGuard.com, to see how PortalGuard is the solution for meeting and exceeding your security objectives. PortalGuard is supported on multiple platforms including Microsoft SharePoint/IIS, IBM Websphere/Websphere Portal, and Lotus Domino.
PortalGuard:
PortalGuard is an authentication and security solution that allows end-users to securely authenticate and manage their portal login credentials directly from a Web browser, while providing administrators with functionality to meet or exceed their security objectives. With PortalGuard, administrators can implement best practices for ensuring stronger and consistently secure authentication. Learn More…
Extensible Authentication Framework:
Many of our customers implement our standard Password Power Plug-ins - the authentication software framework offers robust functionality and feature-rich security, access control, and password management.
But for those customers who have a unique user base, organizational complexities, specific security and compliance requirements or multiple and diverse applications, our expert professional services and development team will develop a solution adapted to their environment and delivered within the framework of our standard Password Power software product, including ongoing technical support. Learn More…
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- The Booth
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- Mark and Kim Representing PortalGuard at the Booth
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- What Are Your Specific Requirements?
PistolStar is Attending Lotusphere 2010!
Come stop by booth #324 to learn more about:
PortalGuard:
A password authentication and security solution that allows end-users to securely authenticate and manage a portal password directly from a Web browser.
Tailored Authentication:
For a unique environment and/or situation, which requires specific functionality, our team would make the necessary adaptations to meet or exceed your security objectives, and provide a fully supported product.
Rule-based Alerts:
Security - Activity Monitoring - making early predictions leads to being proactive instead of reactive.
Tales of Tailored Authentication
Filed under: Authentication Security, Authentication Trends, Customer Case Studies
We’ve found that over 25% of our customer engagements involve making adaptations to Password Power, our authentication software framework. Many organizations need to implement an authentication system that fits tightly with their environment, meets their specific security and compliance requirements and addresses their unique complexities. We’re focused on getting the word out about our flexibility to deliver a tailored authentication solution for our customers and have the case studies to demonstrate it!
We recently issued a press release on the tailored authentication solution we installed for the German military. This press release was featured on numerous media sites, including Investor’s Business Daily.
The German military needed to enhance security and enable self-service password recovery for its 140,000 users. Full details on this will be in a soon-to-be published case study; however, you can find more information on this customer engagement as well as our other tailored authentication deployments in our newsletter, the Technical Journal for Password Management. Issue Q4 2008 showcases six case studies in tailored authentication, each involving different authentication technologies, such as smart cards and government CAC cards, different platforms, and different issues, such as reducing logins to diverse applications and increasing access control.
Our Admin2009 Tailored Authentication Exhibit
We’re back in the office this week after spending most of last week at THE VIEW’s Admin2009 and LotusDeveloper2009, a three-day conference for Lotus software professionals at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. This is one of the top tradeshows we exhibit at each year, and it gave us the chance to showcase our “Tailored Authentication” message. Below are photos of our booth and PistolStar team members who were there to greet visitors and discuss and hand out info on our solutions that are tailored to fit customers’ unique requirements and environment. Team members Craig Campbell, Larry Conroy, and Kimberly Johnson joined VP of sales, Mark Cochran, who snapped the photos.
- Close-up view of Admin2009 booth
- Our booth at Admin2009
- Our booth and team members at Admin2009
Implementing an Authentication Solution: One Size Does Not Fit All
When you stack up authentication solutions, it becomes apparent the “one size fits all” approach falls short. You need to implement a solution that makes sense for your environment and for your business.
It goes without saying that the authentication solution that works best for one organization is not necessarily going to be the best for another. Every enterprise has unique requirements based on its size, the number and location of its facilities, and the number and variety of applications used — not to mention the type of business it is and the industry in which it resides.
Each enterprise also has a different set of user groups. While one organization could have the majority of its users in one location, another could have users based around the globe and working in remote as well as corporate locations. Partners and customers as well as employees could have access to systems and applications and require different authentication controls.
Another consideration is the organization’s business drivers. Is security of utmost concern, or usability? For some companies, there is greater emphasis on relieving the users’ password management burden as much as possible in order to maintain or increase productivity. Other companies, particularly those required to be compliant with government and/or industry regulations, are more concerned with maintaining or boosting security.
Depending on what all these factors are, an organization may want to strengthen authentication by requiring that specific users respond to pre-set challenge questions in addition to entering their username and password, or an organization may find that smart cards would be more expedient than passwords.
Without the right authentication solution, an organization could see user frustration and, consequently, diminished productivity. The IT staff could be burdened with more work and therefore use more resources instead of less to address authentication issues. Most importantly, security could be compromised, giving unauthorized users an opportunity to access sensitive or private data.
Whatever your business may be or your environment may require, you want to make sure the authentication solution you implement is one that fits.