Linking 8000 financial institutions in 206 countries, SWIFT is the world’s leading intermediary for financial transactions, providing secured exchange services between banks, financial services, investment funds, and companies.

Whether the transfers concern payments and cash management, treasury and dervivatives, trade services, or securities, security is clearly the prime concern of SWIFT, whose services provide 24×7 reliability– 99.999% uptime.

SWIFT was looking for an Enterprise SSO system to deploy organization-wide, to reinforce its password management and application access control policy.

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Raiffeisen, a banking group of South Tyrol (Italy), has selected Evidian’s SAM Web in order to increase the security of their home banking applications.

Raiffeisen needed to secure access to some home banking applications through a reverse proxy. This access had to be integrated with a proprietary one-time-password solution.The SAM Web pilot has convinced Raiffeisen that Evidian products are simple to implement and will effectively enforce its access security policy. Another important criteria was the modularity of Evidian’s range of products, as Raiffeisen plans to implement other security modules.

For more information on securing remote web access, consult the Evidian white paper.

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We are witnessing a shift in the reasons for considering single sign-on. Make no mistake, many single sign-on (SSO) purchases are still motivated by productivity concerns. Reducing the number of passwords that users must remember, lowering administration load, freeing the help desk from password reset tasks - these are all significant incentives.

But more and more, we find that being compliant with laws and regulations is a major reason for choosing a single sign-on solution. Although such regulations rarely if ever mandate single sign-on, many organizations find that these types of solutions can make compliance considerably easier. (more…)

• Evidian Mobile E-SSO, the first E-SSO to enable employees to benefit from consistent access management, no matter where they are or what workstation they are using
• Evidian Data Privacy, which protects sensitive information against theft and spying by encrypting data flows and protecting exchanges
• Evidian’s E-SSO solution can also utilize TrustWay PPS, Bull’s encryption USB key for mobile workstations

For more information see the press release

Evidian has published an ‘E-SSO Now’ white paper:

• The challenges of enterprise Single Sign-On
• The different types and technologies of SSO: E-SSO, Web/J2EE SSO, federated SSO, personal SSO
• The 3 myths and realities of SSO
• The 2 mistakes to avoid in implementation
• The 5 best practices in implementation

For more information see the press release

To download the white paper ‘E-SSO now!’

How can employees access their stations when they’ve lost their credentials? When employees are off-line or on the road, how can they access their PCs? In such a context, how to reduce help desk calls? (more…)

How to guarantee a secure web environment for remote accesses? How to create a domain trust between a web access point and existing network appliances? (more…)

In provisioning projects, a single administration point makes it possible to manage user accounts in hundreds of applications. Evidian now offers a new LDAP-based generic connector to manage accounts in applications for which no connector is available.

As the new Evidian generic connector is LDAP-based, it is not necessary any more to install an agent locally, which greatly simplifies the maintenance of applications. In addition, this solution improves the flexibility of user provisioning tasks, making them more customizable.

Download the white paper “Step by Step Identity and Access Management“

Evidian’s Upstream Provisioning facilitates the synchronization of multiple sources and different identity formats, thus offering a simple, robust and innovative alternative to metadirectories.

For more information, see the press release

Natixis (formerly Natexis Banques Populaires) is a major player in the banking world.

High availability is important to Natixis to ensure round-the-clock availability not only of its large banking databases, but also of the associated applications, and in particular the file transfer gateways. (more…)