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What is it?

It acts as a personal password vault that makes accessing already protected information more secure and convenient.
 
It provides enhanced protection against unauthorized access to your notebook, including alternatives to passwords when logging on to Windows, and single sign-on capability that automatically remembers credentials for websites, applications, and protected network resources.
 

Advantage:

  • It provides a method to implement more than one item for user access to the system, network, etc. (for example, Smart Card, Password, Biometrics, TPM password, etc.)
  • Multiple authentication factors are inherently more solid against a single method (for example, password only)
  • It provides the flexibility to select the best method for the user environment
  • A single user console to manage multiple devices is easier than multiple separate applications
  • It admits a single login
    • Passwords are software or hardware encrypted and protected
    • It eliminates the frequency of lost or forgotten passwords
    • It allows using more complex and difficult to crack passwords

The Issue

  • An increasing number of applications and platforms
    • The average corporate user has 6-12 passwords
    • An Authentication, Authorization, Administration solution is needed
  • Multiples authentication accounts/criteria
    • E-mail, network login, SAP, Citrix, web, physical access among others
    • Weak IT security, Post-it notes and password lists
    • Users can use simple passwords (their dog’s name) or repetitive for multiple applications
  • Regulatory compliance and security audits
    • HIPAA
    • Gramm Leach Bliley (GLBA) Law
    • Sarbanes-Oxley Law

The Cost of Passwords

  • Not so useful for the user
    • 45% of the technical support service costs
      is related to password
      issues
    • Too many login events.
  • Memory expansion
    • Password management
    • US$200 - US$300 per user, per year.
    • US$25 - US$50 per technical support service call
  • Weak IT security
    • Costly to force password criteria
    • Non-compliance, need to fail to comply with laws
  • Increasing access needs
    • Employees, business partners, customers and providers.
    • Strain on the internal IT and the existing network security

Requirements

  • Encourage more solid USER Passwords
  • Reduce IT costs for Password Management
  • Implement Password+ (add additional security devices)
  • Simplify the implementation and management of the “Passwords+” environment
  • An Improved Security is aimed at security audit and regulatory compliance

Notes:

  • It admits HP ProtectTools, Smart Card, cryptographic Smart Card through PKCS#11, biometric TPM* from other manufacturers, USB cryptographic tokens, virtual token
  • Credential Manager remembers and encrypts the password information in order to simplify logging into commonly used Web sites or password-protected applications. The user Password repository is only available once the user has been authenticated through previously defined criteria.
 
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