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Which Technology should you choose?

Choosing which authentication technology is the best for your users and applications  is not always straightforward. The 'Authentication Triangle' may be useful to help you make the right choices.

The 'Authentication Triangle'

 As with all forms of security, there is always a trade-off that has to be made between three criteria:

• Rigour of security,
• Ease of use, convenience and usefulness, and
• Cost of the overall solution

The challenge always comes when you need to increase the security of a system without making it significantly more difficult to use and more costly to run.

So, when designing your application you need to decide the right balance between security, cost and convenience for your application and users?  In other words: where in this triangle does your project sit? 

If low cost and simplicity are the key drivers then the application will sit within the single factor authentication band.    As security becomes increasingly significant, then the challenge is to move to more secure two factor authentication without making the system to difficult to use or too expensive. 

How Signify’s Services fit into the Authentication Triangle.

Signify's focus is ensure the highest level of strong authentication security delivered as a simple, user friendly service at an affordable cost.   

Our services provide a flexible choice of authentication technologies delivered within a service framework that enforces your defined security policy while providing the end user support and logistics to eliminate the management headaches often associated with two factor security.

Mix and match services across your user community.

Of course with the Signify managed service, you don't have to choose one solution to fit all your users.  You can provide the appropriate method of authentication to fit the security needs and budget levels for each group of users.

So travelling executives accessing sensitive corporate data when ‘on the road’ can have the rigorous security of RSA SecurID tokens, while clients who need occasional access to lower grade extranet system can be supplied with less expensive Passcode OnDemand delivered to their personal e-mail box.