ActivIdentity 4TRESS AAA Server for Remote Access
Organizations of all sizes are providing access to critical resources across local, wide-area, and wireless networks. The business imperative to provide partners, suppliers, and contractors with access to applications—regardless of an organization’s size or location—has made the issues surrounding authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) of remote access even more significant. IT organizations face the following issues:
- Addressing internal threats by privileged users
- Providing secure access to resources required by suppliers, partners, and contractors
- Coordinating logical and physical access
- Strengthening compliance
The ActivIdentity 4TRESS™ AAA Server for Remote Access is a complete AAA server that gives organizations an open standards-based platform for securing network and application access with multi-factor authentication. ActivIdentity 4TRESS AAA Server for Remote Access secures virtual private networks (VPNs), Web applications, remote terminal services, and more.
The ActivIdentity 4TRESS AAA Server for Remote Access offers the following benefits:
- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for both authenticators and servers
- Simple installation, deployment, and administration
- Smooth migration of users from proprietary authentication systems to the ActivIdentity 4TRESS AAA Server
- Support of a broad range of authentication devices for a variety of security requirements
The ActivIdentity 4TRESS AAA Server for Remote Access includes the following features:
- Open standards-based protocols (e.g., Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service [RADIUS], Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus [TACACS+], and 802.1x), authentication (e.g., Initiative for Open AuTHentication [OATH] and public key infrastructure [PKI]), and user stores (e.g., Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [LDAP] and Structured Query Language [SQL])
- Capability to support a combination of hardware tokens, soft tokens, Short Message Service (SMS) one-time passwords (OTPs), USB tokens, and smart cards
- Web-based self-service
- Web-based help desk administration
The ActivIdentity 4TRESS AAA Server for Remote Access offering also includes a software development kit for systems integrators and independent software vendors.
ActivIdentity 4TRESS AAA Server for Remote Access: How It Works