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Tue, February 10, 2009 ActivIdentity: ActivIdentity Extends 4TRESS With Mobile Strong Authentication
FREMONT, CA--(Marketwire - February 10, 2009) - ActivIdentity Corporation (
"Worker mobility and consumers requiring anytime, anywhere access are driving the demand for strong authentication solutions that can serve diverse audiences," said Grant Evans, chairman and chief executive officer at ActivIdentity. "The mobility component of our 4TRESS platform is the only solution that has the versatility and management capabilities to protect network access for mobile employees and provide the confidence to transact online."
Distributing strong authentication to hundreds of millions of laptops and mobile devices makes secure global interaction possible for customers, businesses and government. 4TRESS has a simple and secure process to activate soft tokens on the devices that users already carry, thereby dramatically altering the trade-off between security and convenience that has traditionally restricted user acceptance.
Short Message Service (SMS) is extending even further the number of users that regularly or occasionally require strong authentication to access critical services. Enterprises can now leverage 4TRESS's robust support for SMS to provide secure access to all their employees even when natural disaster or other business disruption requires quick and scalable remote access without compromising security.
According to a study by The Radicati Group, mobility dominates the worldwide corporate workforce (estimated to be 89% in 2008), driving not only the need for enterprise remote access, but accelerating the growth of online services especially in banking and payments.
"Mobile authentication can be the linchpin that holds together online banking, mobile banking, and mobile payments in a way that marries security with convenience -- increasing the chances that banks will heed the advice of their security professionals," wrote Forrester's Bill Nagel in the November 2007 report "Mobile Authentication Marries Security With Convenience."
The ActivIdentity 4TRESS AAA Server for Remote Access 6.6 along with software tokens on Windows and leading mobile handset platforms is available today. More information can be found at [ http://www.actividentity.com/products/tokens_soft__home.php ]
About ActivIdentity
ActivIdentity Corporation is a global leader in strong authentication and credential management, providing solutions to confidently establish a person's identity when interacting digitally. For more than two decades the company's experience has been leveraged by security-minded organizations in large scale deployments such as the U.S. Department of Defense, Nissan, and Saudi Aramco. The company's customers have issued over 100 million credentials, securing the holder's digital identity. ActivIdentity is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. For more information, visit [ www.actividentity.com ].
ActivIdentity and 4TRESS are registered trademarks in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners in the United States and/or other countries.
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