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Multi-Factor Authentication Inc. Debuts New Authentication Products for
Cisco Networking Solutions at Cisco Live in AnaheimEnables Enterprise Authentication to the Network Regardless of Access Point, Via SSL VPNs and WiFi Connections
IRVINE, Calif. – July 25, 2007 – Multi-Factor Authentication, Inc., (MFA) a provider of cost effective and secure end-user authentication solutions today announced new integrated authentication products for Cisco networking environments including Network Access Control (NAC), SSL-VPNs, and WiFi networks. MFA is demonstrating these patent-pending advanced network authentication solutions -- SecureAuth™ for NAC, SecureAuth™ Cisco SSL-VPN on ASA, and SecureAuth WiFi – at the Cisco Live Networking event at the Anaheim Convention Center this week. Cisco is the worldwide leader in computer networking solutions.
MFA is a leading non-phishable tokenless authentication platform integrated into more than 100 banks which use SecureAuth for Web-based authentication. By integrating the SecureAuth family of network authentication products into the three leading Cisco platforms, MFA is poised to make authentication simple for the industry’s leading network enforcement points through a simple appliance drop into both LAN and WAN environments.
“MFA uses the Cisco NAC Appliance’s ability to enact Web authentication in order to conduct a SecureAuth authentication session,” said Craig Lund, CEO, MFA. “In fact, SecureAuth is the only simple method to conduct a secure X.509I authentication with a deployed NAC appliance architecture. SecureAuth’s full functionality including telephony, SMS authentication and easily-deployed X.509 certificates is fully integrated to the NAC appliance. We see MFA as an ideal security compliment to Cisco’s networking and security platforms.”
SecureAuth is now also integrated to Cisco’s leading all-purpose security appliances, the ASA platform. SecureAuth works natively with ASA SSL VPN – allowing enterprises to securely deploy an SSL VPN without having to issue tokens or other cumbersome authentication devices in order to achieve secure remote access. SecureAuth offers a seamless workflow for deployment of a non-phishable X.509 credential that can be used to conduct a SSL VPN connection the ASA device.
In addition, SecureAuth is natively integrated to Cisco’s Wireless LAN Controller. The wireless LAN controller is the authentication and management piece that acts as policy server for the enterprise WiFi environment. SecureAuth allows an enterprise to securely authenticate and validate users to the deployed WiFi architecture. SecureAuth uses integration features native to the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller.
All three of these product introductions are crucial to an enterprise that needs to securely authenticate and identify users into their LAN and WAN environments for advanced network security and for industry regulatory compliance. The combined Cisco and SecureAuth networking environments allows the enterprise to build trusted roles and trusted zones into their enterprise. SecureAuth then authenticates users into these domains based upon their identity and role. SecureAuth enables the enterprise to authenticate users into the network regardless of the user’s access point including connections through WiFi, VPN, LAN, or WAN.
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