SMB employees are now able to access administrator-set access questions for password recovery.
Authentication and endpoint protection solutions provider DigitalPersona Inc. announced the latest iteration of its DigitalPersona Pro managed security suite for SMBs. The new edition now helps IT administrators manage password resets through a new user self-service. It also offers new IT-assisted system-access recovery features. In addition, it is designed to streamline auditing and reduce regulatory compliance risk.
“With the latest additions we’ve made to DigitalPersona Pro, we are further providing midmarket and SMB customers with flexibility and control in how they manage data protection and access control,” says Jim Fulton, Digital Persona’s vice president of marketing. “Our customers can choose to deploy either self-service or IT-assisted access recovery depending on their environment and needs, and can maintain an accurate assessment of who is accessing systems through our new reporting features.”
The suite offers centrally-managed full-disk encryption, multi-credential authentication for Windows and applications, two-factor VPN authentication, and single sign-on (SSO).
DigitalPersona aims to provide IT departments with the ability to set their own specific list of challenge questions — similar to what a user might experience when resetting a website password– and make them relevant to work-related information the user is unlikely to forget.
The integrated reporting in DigitalPersona Pro enables IT staff to track and validate critical information, such as user logins, password resets, disk encryptions, and other activities in order to report this information for compliance audits.
DigitalPersona Pro is designed not only to help users recover from lost passwords, but also to make advanced authentication simple to deploy, use, and manage. With DigitalPersona Pro, SMBs can use fingerprint biometrics, smart cards, and other forms of credentials to log into Windows, applications, and networks. Businesses can even combine the security of one-time passwords for remote access with the ease-of-use of these other forms of strong authentication.
With DigitalPersona Pro, mobile notebook users can also safely log into VPNs, Webmail, and other RADIUS-compatible applications without having to carry hardware-based tokens or launch separate software token applications. The software offers a choice of deployment options, from a browser-based service to fully-integrated Active Directory snap-ins.
The latest version of DigitalPersona Pro is immediately available from the company and its partners. It provides data protection and access control to individual or shared-user notebook and desktop computers running Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP. DigitalPersona Pro also now supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4.
