Passlogix Raises Bar on ESSO Strong Authentication, Adding RSA, HID, .Net & National ID Card Support

Passlogix(R), Inc., today announced major enhancements to the
strong authentication capabilities of its market-leading v-GO(R)
Sign-On Platform(TM), giving v-GO the broadest authentication support
of any enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) solution on the market.
Additions include integration with the full suite of RSA
authenticators, HID Prox and iClass proximity badges used for kiosk
access, Microsoft .Net smart cards, and an expanded list of smart
cards, plus support for additional middleware vendors to serve a
variety of IT environments.

For European companies, the enhancements include the potential to
use national ID cards as strong authenticators, eliminating the need
to purchase separate devices to implement two-factor authentication to
tighten security for system and application logon.

These upgrades significantly expand the choice of authentication
devices, methods and middleware that can be used in conjunction with
v-GO SSO (v-GO Single Sign-On(R)), the core application in the
Passlogix Sign-On Platform, and v-GO AM (v-GO Authentication
Manager(TM)), an add-on module that enables users to securely
authenticate themselves to enterprise applications with any form of
strong authentication without the need to remember multiple user IDs
or passwords.

"Every enterprise has different needs for strong authentication,
whether it's a different form of authentication, a different vendor or
even a preference for PKCS#11-based smart cards over the MS CAPI
standard," said Stephane Fymat, Passlogix vice president of product
management and sales operations. "These v-GO enhancements enable us to
meet more of those needs than any ESSO vendor, fit into any existing
two-factor authentication environment, and provide complete
flexibility for customers that are changing authentication methods or
deploying authenticators for the first time."

Passlogix's expanded strong authentication support extends v-GO's
single sign-on capabilities to enterprises using:

-- RSA Smart Cards including ID/password mode, becoming the first
ESSO platform enabling administrators to take advantage of
RSA's ability to store the user's Windows ID and password on
the smart card in lieu of deploying and managing digital
certificates. A single RSA Smart Card allows users to get into
their building, log onto their PCs, and access applications
via single sign-on.

-- RSA SecureID(R) SID800 multi-function hardware authenticators,
which combine SecurID token and smart chip-based
authentication in a USB form factor. v-GO can work with the
device in both smart card and token mode, reading and
automatically inserting the one-time password (OTP) code into
a SecurID-enabled application without user intervention.
Passlogix is the only ESSO vendor to support the device.

-- RSA SecurID(R) hardware tokens for use both as primary and
application authentication, making v-GO the only ESSO solution
that can natively support the use of SecurID tokens for
Windows logon. RSA's Local Authentication Client (LAC) is
embedded in v-GO AM for optional installation on the user's
machine.

-- HID Prox and iClass proximity badges for kiosk access, adding
passive badge support to the active badge integration already
offered with v-GO's support for Ensure Technologies' XyLoc
proximity-based authorization badges. Both active and passive
proximity badges are used most frequently to authenticate
users to kiosks or shared workstations.

-- Microsoft .Net-based smart cards, additional smart card
brands, including

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Vendor Smartcard
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Gemalto Xpresso
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Cryptoflex e-gate, Cyberflex Access 4.3
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.Net
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RSA Smart Card 5200, Smart Key 6200, SecurID SID800
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NetMaker NetMaker Net iD - CardOS 1
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IBM JCOP31 v2.2
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This expansion gives v-GO the broadest smart card support in the
ESSO market as well as making it the first ESSO platform to support
cards based on .Net technology.

-- European national ID cards that can now be used to
authenticate employees to enterprise applications as well as
for banking, healthcare and other existing uses. This
capability is of particular value to smaller companies that
want to strengthen security with strong authentication but
lack the budget to issue devices dedicated to identity
credentials for application access.

-- Smart card middleware from Gemalto (Gemplus, Axalto), Raak
Software and RSA, giving administrators a choice of middleware
that brokers the communication between the card and the
application.

These enhancements address the growing adoption of strong
authentication strategies to increase logon and application security
in global enterprises, and the associated need to integrate two-factor
authentication into single sign-on environments in order to maximize
the benefits of single sign-on as well as reduce application sign-on
time.

v-GO AM, the v-GO platform's add-on authentication manager,
provides those abilities with the added benefit of enabling
administrators to mix and match different authenticators for different
users and applications. It also allows administrators to control which
applications are accessed based on the type of authenticator used.

v-GO SSO, the platform's core single sign-on system, automatically
and securely signs the user into any number of Windows, mainframe or
Web applications after a single network logon without additional
identification and authentication processes. This reduces the security
gaps, administrative overhead, user frustration and help desk costs
associated with the use of multiple application passwords. It also
facilitates access reporting for regulatory compliance purposes.

The v-GO platform also includes four other add-on products that
extend v-GO's single sign-on capabilities to kiosk environments;
enable all identity provisioning systems to automatically inject user
credentials into v-GO SSO; permit self-service reset of forgotten
Windows passwords; and centralize management of strong authentication
devices. The platform has sold more than 6 million licenses to
organizations around the world.

About Passlogix

Passlogix is the developer of the v-GO Sign-On Platform, the
market's most robust, scalable and easy-to-deploy enterprise single
sign-on platform with successful installations in hundreds of
organizations of all sizes and in all industries around the world. The
company's patented intelligence-based technology eliminates lengthy
and expensive implementation cycles, and provides rapid return on
investment, by adapting to any existing infrastructure without the
need for custom coding or replacement of legacy hardware or software.
Founded in 1996, Passlogix is headquartered in New York City with
sales offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
and Singapore. For more information please visit
http://www.passlogix.com/

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