Mobile applications developers can embed RSA SecurID technology to provide strong one-time password authentication without impacting the familiar experience of entering a username and password. RSA has developed an API that is designed to enable end users to seamlessly authenticate through mobile applications with the RSA SecurID software token. However, instead of prompting the user to manually enter the one-time token code, the mobile application integrated with the RSA SecurID solution does this automatically. The same software token can still be outside the mobile application for traditional authentication tasks, for instance, if the user also needs a one-time password to access an online application from a personal computer such as a VPN or web portal.
Existing customers can leverage their current investment in RSA SecurID technology to protect mobile applications. The RSA SecurID mobile SDK is engineered to allow IT organizations to seamlessly and securely provision software tokens to mobile devices with minimal user interaction to enable interoperability with internally developed enterprise applications as well as with popular mobile VPN and virtual desktop clients.
RSA is partnering with leading mobile VPN and virtual desktop solution providers to deliver strong OTP authentication on mobile applications through the use of the SDK. RSA Secured® Partners such as Citrix, Juniper and VMware are using the SDK to enable interoperability with popular enterprise applications such as Citrix Receiver® technology, Juniper JUNOS® Pulse technology and VMware View® technology.
The use of RSA SecurID software tokens helps decrease total cost of ownership for organizations as they don't require any physical shipping, can be revoked and automatically redeployed, eliminating the need for replacement tokens. Additionally, having the software authenticator embedded in the mobile device to be used for secure access to multiple applications can help reduce the number of costly technical support calls for misplaced tokens.
RSA Adaptive Authentication delivers risk-based security for mobile
RSA Adaptive Authentication is a risk-based authentication and fraud detection platform used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide for authentication of more than 300 million users through risk indicators powered by the RSA® Risk Engine, such as device identification, geo-location, behavioral profiling, and fraud data from the RSA eFraudNetwork(SM) community.
The RSA Adaptive Authentication mobile SDK has been designed to enable a seamless mobile application user experience with nothing additional to deploy on user mobile devices and no change to familiar login processes. RSA Adaptive Authentication is engineered to be embedded into mobile applications to help protect both login and post-login user activities by measuring risk indicators to identify high-risk and suspicious activities. Popular use cases include protecting mobile access to online banking, e-commerce, private portals and VPNs.
Mobile applications that directly integrate RSA SecurID technology or RSA Adaptive Authentication can help provide organizations with assurance that their resources are designed to be protected from unauthorized access without any usability impact to the end user.
The SDKs are available free of charge to all RSA Secured partners and RSA SecurID customers.
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