Modern Multifactor Authentication made easy with RSA SecurID® Access

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In the past few months we have had conversations with many of you, our RSA SecurID^® Access customers, who currently use RSA SecurID Hardware or Software tokens, about your journey to modernize authentication. We have heard you uncover three major themes:

1. You need a simple, convenient way to extend multifactor authentication (MFA) to more types of users across the organization. Users who are on the go and need a simple and modern MFA experience.
   
   
2. You need a faster, less obtrusive way to enable MFA for your existing users with tokens accessing existing resources protected by RSA SecurID today.
   
   
3. You need to extend authentication to additional access uses cases such as SaaS applications and cloud infrastructure.

We love getting this kind of feedback for you because it helps us create solutions that can help you enable your business to grow securely.

In the upcoming June product release of RSA SecurID Access, an easy and efficient approach to adopting multi-factor authentication allows you to get faster time to value to achieve these goals, without needing to upgrade your existing authentication environment.

What's new?

Users can easily access existing resources protected by SecurID today including Virtual Private Network (VPN), Windows Desktop log-in, Linux/Unix based servers etc, with modern authentication methods including Push to Approve.

How is that done?

RSA SecurID authentication agents intercept access requests from users and direct these requests to the RSA Authentication Manager server for authentication. Once the system verifies users, they are granted access.

What does it mean for the end-users accessing resources?

Users can access RSA SecurID agent-protected resources with a secure and convenient authentication experience by simply entering their existing RSA SecurID PIN and tapping Approve on their registered devices. Or they can enter One-Time Password (OTP) tokencodes generated by the RSA SecurID Authenticate application. There is no need to replace or update your existing agents or RSA Ready products, and users do not need to memorize a new PIN.

What do you need to do to set this up?

Administrators can leverage a new wizard directly from the RSA Authentication Manager (AM) Security Console to set up and configure secure connections between AM and the Cloud Authentication Service. Invite users from the AM Manage Users page to enroll and register for MFA. This not only saves many configuration steps but minimizes training costs by using the AM console that is well known by your administrators and dramatically reduces the time to deploy.

Better Help Desk management?

Help Desk Administrators have a unified view from AM User Dashboard to manage a mixed deployment of tokens / MFA from a single console. This will result in much faster resolution of user help desk calls.

Achieve Faster Compliance at a Lower Cost

Immediately, expand MFA to new use cases and new users. Enable new users to create a PIN + Approve from their mobile device, eliminate passwords and achieve compliance. Lower cost by enabling MFA for third party contractors and suppliers. For token renewals, leverage MFA and lower token provisioning costs.