RSA Receives 'Strong Positive' in Leading Analyst Firm's MarketScope Report
EMC's Security Division's Authentication Solutions Evaluated by Leading Industry Analyst Firm Based upon Product/Service, Offering Strategy, Overall Visibility, Market Responsiveness and Track Record, Sales Executive/Pricing, Marketing Execution and Customer Experience
BEDFORD, Mass., June 3 -- RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE:EMC)
, today announced that its authentication solutions received a "strong positive" rating in Gartner's report entitled "MarketScope for Enterprise Broad-Portfolio Authentication Vendors"(1). A strong positive is the highest possible rating given.
"I believe that this 'strong positive' rating reflects upon our continued success in delivering a broad set of authentication solutions to our customers that assure identities and help prevent losses caused by online crime and data breaches," said Tom Corn, Vice President of Product Marketing at RSA. "Our innovative portfolio helps our customers choose the optimal methods of strong authentication by determining the proper balance of risk, cost and user convenience to best meet their unique needs."
According to Gartner, "authentication is a foundational service that supports many information security and compliance functions. It is crucial to authorization and auditing services. Concerns about unauthorized access, especially to financial systems and databases containing private data, are increasing the interest in ensuring that authentication is appropriate to the risks. In some situations, a simple password might provide appropriate levels of assurance and accountability; however, with the increased exposure of corporate systems to external users and more-sophisticated threats, the convenience of staying with passwords is increasingly outweighed by the risks. Thus, many enterprises are independently evaluating -- and implementing -- new authentication methods to mitigate the risks related to access control and accountability."
RSA Authentication Solutions
RSA's broad and innovative authentication solutions are offered via Software-as-a-Service, on-premise applications and appliance form factors, and include:
-- RSA SecurID(R), the market-leading two-factor authentication system
used by more than 40 million people across more than 30,000
organizations worldwide, is engineered to assure user identities and
protect against unauthorized access to applications and resources
across numerous physical locations. RSA SecurID technology is
comprised of both a broad range of hardware and software
authenticators that provide end users with a one time password that is
designed to change every 60 seconds, as well as its software engine --
RSA(R) Authentication Manager -- which scales to support millions of
users and provides the benefit of technical certification with more
than 300 products. RSA SecurID authenticators include: hardware
tokens, USB-based hybrid authenticator with smart chip; On-Demand
token for user access through SMS and e-mail and a business continuity
option to provide a temporary, expanded license to support a rapidly
expanded remote workforce; software tokens integrated with several
third party smart phone platforms and devices including all
BlackBerry(R) handhelds, USB flash devices, biometric devices, and
trusted computing platforms; and standalone software tokens that
include a Microsoft(R) Windows(R) desktop token and an Internet
toolbar.
-- RSA(R) Adaptive Authentication, a risk-based authentication platform
used by more than 8,000 organizations worldwide in the healthcare,
financial services, government, insurance, automotive, real estate,
manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries. It is designed for
large, distributed enterprise environments to help assure user
identities using the RSA(R) Risk Engine self-learning risk indicators
-- such as device identification, user behavior profiling, and fraud
data from the RSA eFraudNetwork(SM) community -- before interacting
with corporate resources and online applications. RSA Adaptive
Authentication is engineered to provide convenience for end users
through transparent authentication while visible authentication such
as challenge questions or out-of-band authentication are invoked only
when user activity appears unusual or exceeds established policies
based upon risk profiles. The RSA Adaptive Authentication platform
currently protects more than 225 million people online.
-- RSA(R) Identity Verification, a strong authentication solution
designed to assure user identities in real-time and helps prevent the
risk of identity theft and fraud. Utilizing knowledge-based
authentication technology, RSA Identity Verification is engineered to
present a user with a series of top-of-mind questions using relevant
facts on the individual obtained by scanning dozens of publicly and
commercially available record databases, delivering a confirmation of
a user's identity within seconds without requiring a prior
relationship with the user. Its Identity Event Module helps improve
accuracy and security by measuring the level of risk associated with
an identity and allowing the system to adjust the difficulty of the
questions during the authentication process to meet the specific
nature of the risk. RSA Identity Verification is used by more than 200
organizations in the financial, telecommunications, insurance, and
healthcare industries.
-- RSA(R) Digital Certificate Solutions, interoperable modules designed
to manage digital certificates and create an environment for
authenticated, private and legally binding electronic communications
and transactions. Independently tested to scale to more than eight
million users per server, RSA Digital Certificate Solutions are built
upon open standards, feature interoperability with more than 200
applications, are easy to use and fast to deploy. They include: RSA(R)
Certificate Manager to issue, manage and validate digital
certificates; RSA Registration Manager to help streamline the
enrollment process for handling large volumes of end-user certificate
requests; RSA(R) Validation Solution to enable immediate validation of
digital certificates; RSA(R) Key Recovery Manager to securely archive
and recover encryption keys of users; and RSA(R) Root Signing Service
to enable enterprises to "chain" their certificate authority to RSA's
trusted root.
-- RSA(R) Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce is engineered to provide
a secure framework for cardholder protection and fraud management. It
has authenticated more than 20 billion transactions to date via a
range of authentication and card security products, including Verified
by Visa(R), MasterCard(R) SecureCode(R) and JCB J/Secure(TM).
About the MarketScope
The MarketScope is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About RSA
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle -- no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.
RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention, encryption & key management, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.
(1) Gartner "MarketScope for Enterprise Broad-Portfolio Authentication Vendors" by Ant Allen, April 16, 2009.
RSA, SecurID, eFraudNetwork and FraudAction are either registered trademarks or trademarks of RSA Security, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Verified by Visa is a registered trademark of Visa Inc. in the United States and other countries. MasterCard and SecureCode are registered trademarks of MasterCard Worldwide or its subsidiaries in the United States. J/Secure is a registered trademark of JCB in the United States and other countries. All other trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
