As organisations roll-out online services beyond generic information access, it is typically necessary to be able to identify, and authenticate the identity of the online user so that the appropriate services can be offered and the customers’ confidentiality maintained.
The various methods used to authenticate the identity of a customer are referred to as “authentication mechanisms”.
The suitability of a particular mechanism for a specific application is dependent on a number of business, technical and usability variables as shown below - no one size fits all needs!
It is usual within most enterprises to have different mechanisms for different purposes, often arranged along business unit lines, or the characteristics of the customer segment.
Salt’s unique product mix supports and promotes this diversity, and importantly supports it within a single enterprise infrastructure product – Thales SafeSign.
Use of SafeSign future-proofs an organisation’s identity and transaction authentication processing through readily accommodating existing and emergent authentication mechanisms as they are required to support the organisation’s online delivery evolution.
Getting to the right price point
Salt Group’s unique Mobile Authentication tokens break the traditional nexus between “lifecycle cost” and the “assurance level” of the mechanism – or how trusted it is.
Salt’s Mobile Tokens enable an organisation to leverage the ubiquitous mobile handset base to provide high assurance 2-factor authentication at a fraction of the lifecycle cost of specialised devices or smart cards.
The diagram below compares Salt’s Mobile Tokens with alternative 2-Factor solutions.
