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| CRYPTOCard Helps Charitable Organization Significantly Cut Cost of Protecting Its Network from Unauthorized Access CRYPTOCard announces that Help the Aged has migrated 250 token users from RSA's to CRYPTOCard's two-factor authentication technology to significantly cut the costs associated with providing simple and secure network access for its remote users. The users will utilize CRYPTOCard's KT-1 keychain token, which unlike its current token does not need to be repurchased every five years. Help the Aged will purchase additional tokens as it remote/home-based worker program expands. Unhappy with the costs associated with its existing two-factor authentication solution, Help the Aged began researching alternative solutions from such companies as Vasco, Secure Computing, and CRYPTOCard. Although price was a key criterion, Help the Aged did not want to sacrifice level of security or ease of use, and also wanted to ensure its users were not inconvenienced by switching to an alternative solution. Help the Aged selected CRYPTOCard to provide secure remote access via its Cisco VPN client. Not only did CRYPTOCard meet Help the Aged's price and security criteria, it also provided a simple migration path from the existing tokens. Developed for real-world networks - where Linux and Mac workstations often live in a mixed Microsoft Windows domain, with Windows clients and Apache or IIS Web servers - CRYPTOCard's event-based two-factor authentication tokens make it simple to replace weak static passwords with a password that is randomly generated for every logon attempt. One-time passwords cannot be reused by hackers, and eliminate both the help-desk costs associated with resetting forgotten passwords and the security risk resulting from users writing them down. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |