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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.

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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…)