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FoxBusiness - Posted
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Indusface Consulting,
India’s leading IT Security services company announced
that CRISIL, India’s leading Ratings, Research, Risk and
Policy Advisory Company has enlisted its expertise to
secure remote Virtual Private Network (VPN) users. The
plan to expand the number of users who would now have
remote access to CRISIL’s systems in a cost effective
manner was implemented using Entrust IdentityGuard a
versatile authentication platform with one-time-passcode
(OTP) tokens. Entrust IdentityGuard is the flagship
product of Entrust, Inc. [NASDAQ: ENTU].
“Entrust’s IdentityGuard
strong authentication solution provided us with a cost
effective solution to extend the two factor
authentication based remote access to many more users
than is possible currently”, said CRISIL’s Chief
Technology Officer Mr. Hiren Shah. He added, “What we
specifically liked about the Entrust ID guard solution
was the choice of having the option to deploy multiple
types of tokens.”
CRISIL cited the
comprehensive cost-benefit of Entrust’s strong
authentication solution in terms of initial investment
and recurring long-term costs as the main reason behind
adopting it. The platform’s dynamic multifactor
authentication capability allows the organisation the
ability to provide its employees any number of
authenticators, as necessary.
“As was the case with
CRISIL, traditional token offerings are often much too
expensive for organisations to deploy as part of a
layered security model that is both effective and
cost-efficient,” said Entrust Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer Mr. Bill Conner. “Entrust
IdentityGuard Mini Tokens represent an affordable
alternative for organizations seeking a high level of
security provided by one-time-passcode tokens but
haven’t been able to justify the cost — until now”,
re-iterated Mr. Conner.
Mr. Ashish Tandon, CEO,
Indusface Consulting, further added, “Our in-depth
knowledge in deploying Entrust solutions in
heterogeneous environments made it possible for us to
successfully implement the entire Entrust IdentityGuard
solution as well as meet all project timelines to
perfection and customer satisfaction for this critical
project for CRISIL. It has been our privilege to work
with CRISIL and we remain
committed to customer service and satisfaction.”
With more
than 9.2 million licenses in use today, Entrust
IdentityGuard is an open versatile authentication
platform that enables organisations to layer security —
according to access requirements or the risk of a given
transaction — across diverse users and applications. The
platform’s authentication options include username and
password, IP-geolocation, machine/device, questions and
answers, out-of-band one-time passcode (delivered via
voice, SMS or e-mail), grid cards and a range of
one-time-password tokens.
Entrust
IdentityGuard helps organisations minimise operational
challenges such as burden to help desks and
infrastructure maintenance. It includes a complete
Web-based administration capability for user and policy
management, enabling organizations to easily distribute
administrative tasks to the right individuals, all based
on role.
About
CRISIL
CRISIL is
India’s leading Ratings, Research, Risk and Policy
Advisory Company. CRISIL offers domestic and
international customers a unique combination of local
insights and global perspectives, delivering independent
information, opinions and solutions that help them make
better informed business and investment decisions,
improve the efficiency of markets and market
participants, and help shape infrastructure policy and
projects. Its integrated range of capabilities includes
credit ratings and risk assessment; research on India's
economy, industries and companies; investment research
outsourcing; fund services; risk management and
infrastructure advisory services. For more information,
please visit www.crisil.com
About
Entrust
Entrust
[NASDAQ: ENTU] secures digital identities and
information for consumers, enterprises and governments
in 1,650 organizations spanning 60 countries. Leveraging
a layered security approach to address growing risks,
Entrust solutions help secure the most common digital
identity and information protection pain points in an
organization. These include SSL, authentication, fraud
detection, shared data protection and e-mail security.
For information, call 888-690-2424, e-mail
entrust@entrust.com or visit
www.entrust.com
About
Indusface Consulting
IndusFace
Consulting offers an extensive range of Information
Security as well as Identity & Access Management
Services through its experienced, certified and trained
people. IndusFace Consulting boasts of a team, which has
serviced more than 200+ satisfied customers which
includes Fortune 500 organizations belonging to various
industry verticals like Telecom, Healthcare, IT,
Manufacturing, ITeS, Financial, Energy & Power and
software, spread across India, Middle East and North
America. IndusFace has also partnered with global
security software vendors like IBM, Entrust, McAfee,
Symantec, Watchfire, Sun Microsystems, Mark Monitor and
Third Brigade to provide end to end security solutions.
IndusFace Consulting is also empanelled with CERT-IN
(Govt. of India) & RBI (Reserve Bank of India) as
information security auditors. |
