Centrify launches ‘MFA Everywhere’ initiative

March 2, 2016

Centrify launches ‘MFA Everywhere’ initiative to secure enterprise identities against compromised credentials

Centrify’s MFA Everywhere provides turnkey, adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) across the enterprise in Australia and New Zealand — without impacting productivity

Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, overnight announced MFA Everywhere, a new initiative aimed at securing enterprise identities against today’s most prevalent source of cyber attacks — compromised credentials — without slowing down users.

After making this announcement at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Centrify is now delivering one of the industry’s easiest to use adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solutions that supports all types of enterprise users — including employees, contractors, outsourced IT, partners and customers — across a broad range of enterprise resources, including cloud and on-premises apps, VPNs, network devices, and cloud and on-premises servers.

In the wake of so many high-profile breaches based on stolen or brute-forced password attacks, many businesses have rushed to implement MFA to provide an extra layer of security and mitigate the risk of data breaches.

Yet most companies have seen mixed results at best. MFA was either reserved for only the most sensitive or vulnerable accounts, or implemented in standalone silos for specific apps or services due to lack of platform coverage.

What’s more, MFA was either “on” or “off”, which resulted in the constant prompting for MFA, and the cumbersome nature of physical tokens annoyed users who were simply trying to get work done.

The Centrify Identity Platform changes this paradigm. A single turnkey platform provides flexible options for authentication factors, for seamless, adaptive MFA across enterprise identities and enterprise assets — without frustrating users.

The Centrify Identity Platform supports a broad range of enterprise resources, including thousands of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, dozens of on-premises applications, hundreds of server operating systems as well as leading VPNs and network devices.

Additionally, it supports MFA for privileged command execution and Secure Shell (SSH) access to servers deployed both on-premises and in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environment.

“Not only do organisations need to implement MFA across all users and resources, they need to do it in a way that doesn’t hinder their users’ ability to work seamlessly and effectively,” said Bill Mann, chief product officer for Centrify.

“As attackers get more aggressive and sophisticated, organisations need to get serious about layering on additional factors of authentication for all their enterprise assets. Unlike other vendors that deliver islands of MFA for a subset of users and resources, we are proud to embark and deliver on an expansive MFA Everywhere vision.”

Centrify supports simple, flexible authentication for all types of users. Whether it’s systems administrators logging on to, or executing privileged commands on servers, or end users accessing cloud, mobile, or on-premises apps, Centrify can bolster security with additional factors including:
Push notification
Voice call
Text message
Soft token OTP
Mobile biometric
OATH-compliant tokens

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