RSA Gives SMBs Enterprise-Class Alternative To Risky Reliance On Passwords

RSA announced RSA Authentication Manager Express, its newest strong authentication solution designed to meet the cost and convenience requirements of SMBs. The same risk-based RSA technology used to protect millions of online transactions every day and more than 250 million identities worldwide is being made available in a package that businesses of any size can use.

Today’s organizations are faced with the challenges of an increasingly mobile workforce, stricter regulations, and advanced threats that target sensitive information and intellectual property. Both industry researchers and real-world security breach events have demonstrated for years that weak, password-only protection is no match for savvy cybercriminals and cannot be considered an effective method of preventing unauthorized users from accessing company resources.

RSA Authentication Manager Express is a risk-based and on-demand authentication system designed for organizations to provide up to 2,500 end users with secure access to data and business applications through SSL Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and online portals.

“There has always been a need for strong authentication in small and mid-size organizations, yet adoption has been slow because most offerings have fallen short of meeting the cost and convenience needs of these customers,” said Sally Hudson, Research Analyst at IDC. “Previous enterprise-class solutions have traditionally been too costly to deploy and manage for smaller organizations; cheaper alternatives lacked end-user convenience and didn’t provide multi-layered protection. RSA Authentication Manager Express combines the best of RSA’s expertise and innovation in enterprise and consumer authentication technology to provide the right balance of security, simplicity and features required by smaller organizations.”

“Strong authentication has become a business requirement that is often mandated by regulations which apply to organizations of every size,” said Tom Corn, Chief Strategy Officer for RSA, The Security Division of EMC.  “Building on more than 25 years of innovation and leadership, we’ve engineered the RSA Authentication Manager Express solution to provide enterprise-class identity protection and security while also meeting vital ease of deployment, cost and end-user convenience requirements of SMBs. The solution also demonstrates a compelling model and vision for securing access to web-based applications and resources using smart phones and mobile devices that have become a mainstay for business end-users.”