Duo to Secure Digital Identities
2012-07-24SafeNet and Internet2 have entered into an agreement to offer SafeNet smart cards and PKI hard tokens for cryptographic storage of PKI credentials.
As part of its multifactor authentication program, Internet2’s InCommon will offer SafeNet’s smart cards and PKI tokens to participating higher education organizations. These devices provide researchers, faculty, students and staff with secure, cryptographic storage of the client certificates that they may use to access campus-based and online resources secured with PKI, as well as allowing for S/MIME digital email signatures and email encryption.
“In today’s increasingly mobile environment, more students and researchers are accessing IT services and institutional information from a variety of devices and locations. At the same time, universities are under the gun to make certain that security is strong. Second-factor solutions are a proven approach to protecting the security of individual and university information. Our partnership with SafeNet provides the education community a proven multifactor authentication solution,” said Jack Suess, Chief Information Officer & VP- Information Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Chair - InCommon Steering Committee.
Chen Arbel, Director, Business Development, SafeNet, said, “As we continue to see an exponential growth of digital data assets, ensuring secure access becomes increasingly critical for security. It is essential to make certain that users are who they say they are and that they can only access what they have been authorized to access. We believe two-factor authentication, backed by PKI as the root of trust, is the best way to secure these digital assets. We are pleased to offer this program in conjunction with InCommon to help protect their participants’ digital assets, whether they reside in the enterprise or are accessed remotely.”
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