SecurEnvoy, PasswordBank Take Tokenless Authentication to Cloud
January 11, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
SecurEnvoy, a provider of tokenless authentication products, has partnered with PasswordBank to take tokenless, two-factor authentication to the cloud and provide it as a service to PasswordBank’s customers, complementing PasswordBank’s identity management solutions.
According to the companies, PasswordBank customers will be able to access cloud services including Google Apps (NASDAQ: GOOG), Microsoft Office 365 (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) through PasswordBank’s single sign-on platform and then use SMS messages for two-factor authentication. The goal is to provide business-grade security that doesn’t require end users to carry a physical token at all times. That physical token is, instead, their mobile phone or other mobile device (presumably saving them from the Batman utility belt look we were all so proud of in the ’90s)…
Basically, the service being offered is a soft token that replaces the physical tokens many businesses use. It’s not exactly new technology, of course. Soft keys are being provided to end users around the world in place of physical tokens, which are frequently lost or left on nighttables…
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