RSA has announced a host of RSA Via customers and partners who are embracing RSA’s Smart Identity solutions. These organisations state that RSA Via solutions help enable them to regain control over their users’ identities and access across locations globally, by offering a single, central view of identity, resources, entitlements, and access.
According to the company, RSA Via Access is engineered to take a hybrid cloud approach to securing identities, allowing customers to enforce the same level of secure access to enterprise and SaaS resources, whether in the cloud or on-premise, without the need to sync sensitive user credentials to the cloud.
Additionally, the RSA Via Access integration with RSA SecurID authentication helps increase the number of authentication methods to cloud applications available to users, enabling further optimisation of convenience and security for end users.
Application providers are working with RSA to help secure access to their applications and improve their customers’ experience with their product. Application vendors realise that the adoption of cloud apps by businesses is dependent upon the ability of those businesses to securely manage access. The vision for RSA Via Access for intelligent, comprehensive IAM will help enable the customers of application vendors to confidently utilise their cloud applications for their business needs – increasing the widespread use of SaaS applications, from anywhere and on any device.
RSA continues to deliver new authentication methods and policies to optimise security and user convenience. In addition to TouchID fingerprint verification, Tap or Shake to Approve an authentication request, and one-time passcode prompts all using a mobile device, users will also be able to confirm push notifications on an Apple Watch. This further improves a user’s experience, as they won’t need to open the RSA Via app to authenticate quickly and securely.
Additionally, the enhanced version of RSA Via Access is engineered to add new localisation capabilities, to better serve global workforces. For large enterprises with employees and users throughout the world, language can often be a critical barrier to the consistent adoption of tools. This challenge can perpetuate the problem of siloed, point solutions that only partially address the need for access controls. These new capabilities will allow RSA Via Access to be deployed across an entire organisation, regardless of where the workforce is located. The result is consistently enforced access control, with a truly comprehensive view of identity and access.
Jim Ducharme, Vice President of Engineering and Product Management, RSA, said, “Identity is the foundation of any security program, and its importance is continuing to grow. Organisations across the globe must address the complexity of securing access to the “Islands of Identity,” meaning a combination of on-premise workloads, workloads shifting to public and hybrid clouds, and SaaS applications. With RSA Via technology, customers know who has access to the corporate data and resources and that these resources are being accessed with security and convenience in mind. RSA is an end-to-end Identity partner and we’re committed to the success of our customers’ and partners’ IAM strategies.”
