Imprivita Intros low cost SSO security appliance

By Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(03/27/03, 05:55:27 PM EDT)

Lexington, Mass. --- Imprivata Corp. has developed an affordable non-intrusive, easy-to-implement appliance that it thinks will facilitate secure single sign-on (SSO) to Web, client server and legacy applications.

Called OneSign, it uses a proprietary technology to enable SSO without modifying existing applications, and requires no more than one passord or fom of access an SSO-enabled application. and administrators can implement more secure password policies in minutes. OneSign dramatically lowers help-desk costs associated with password administration while providing greater security and convenience for users and administrators.

While it is the preferred form of user-accessible computing security, companies with limited resources find it difficult to implement such procedures in order to comply with regulations including HIPAA and GLBA, as well as accounting and insurance security audits. As a result, both the executive suite and data centers are

The SSO protocol the company uses provides, the company said, a simple, highly secure mechanism for encrypting, storing and delivering user credentials to applications. It imports and synchronizes user lists from existing directories with no additional directory to manage or integrate, and no changes to back-end applications. Redundant pairs ensure a hot failover unit is always ready to take over seamlessly.

The company's approach to SSO is designed to allow implementation of a straightforward password policy across all applications based on users' primary authentication. To increase password security, the software can cycle application passwords behind the scenes and disable any user with one click.

Now available, OneSign is packaged as a pair of self-contained, 1u appliances with nothing extra to buy or install and configuration desgined to take place in no more than a few hours.

For more information on this product, go to www.imprivata.com.

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