ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Server
Customer-facing organizations have embraced electronic service channels, but they confront barriers that limit the potential benefits of these services and threaten user confidence in them. Financial institutions, e-commerce organizations, and service providers face the following challenges when extending Web, mobile, and traditional phone services to customers:
- Building trust and confidence in branded online services
- Reducing costs and increasing operational efficiency
- Strengthening compliance
- Limiting losses due to fraud
The ActivIdentity 4TRESS™ Authentication Server provides a versatile authentication infrastructure that addresses an organization’s cross-channel requirements. The ActivIdentity solution secures electronic channels with a consistent model that provides the following benefits:
- Trusted and secure electronic channels that motivate customers to move to more flexible and lower-cost service channels
- Strong authentication that addresses user demands for convenience and portability while reducing the cost of fulfillment and management
- Streamlined compliance via a centralized audit trail for customer transactions across channels and products
- The ability to quickly deploy additional layers of security to address new threats
ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Server includes the following features:
- Support of a broad range of authentication methods (e.g., user name and password, knowledge-based authentication, and one-time-password) and authentication devices based on open standards (e.g., the Initiative for Open AuTHentication [OATH]; Europay, MasterCard, and Visa [EMV]; and PKI)
- Comprehensive management tools providing complete life cycle management for user credentials, soft tokens, and devices
- Highly scalable deployment architecture supporting multiple platforms
- Extensible framework to easily add third-party authentication methods
The ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Server offering also includes a software development kit for systems integrators and independent software vendors.
ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Server: How It Works