What industries are the most common implementers of NetIQ Advanced Authentication?

Although the use of Advanced Authentication (AA) in highly regulated industries like financial services and healthcare receives the most attention, the reality is that it’s commonly used throughout a wide range of industries. Retail: from small outlets to very large multi-national retail operators, these businesses appreciate NetIQ Advanced Authentication’s high level of security, speed, and authentication method flexibility. Its design allows retailers to configure Advanced Authentication to be as simple as a redundant cloud instance all the way to a complex distributed infrastructure capable of delivering fast and reliable authentication to any size and shape of organization. Manufacturing - aircraft, auto, parts, and packaging companies: in addition to meeting their security requirements, corporations in the manufacturing segment are using Advanced Authentication to match their speed and simplicity requirements. These types of organizations often seek identity verification technologies that don’t impede their business. Likewise, as they require their partners to verify their identities with multi-factor authentication, it needs to be simple so as not to disrupt their interactions. Media – telecom, cable, and other media providers: as much as any industry, the media sector takes an aggressive approach to security with attention to a compliance of various working groups and committees as well as government mandates. Confidentiality, data integrity, and of course availability are fundamental requirements demanded by media partners and customers who are concerned about the threats to data or data handling devices. NetIQ Advanced Authentication allows a wide range of strong authentication types that can be used for just about any situation. In that the media market has less tolerance for authentication silos, Advanced Authentication’s framework enables central point of administration for all identities. Transportation: because of the extraordinarily high cost and ensuing customer fallout posed by unauthorized access potentially tampering with transportation systems or their machinery, vendors commonly come across scenarios where multi-factor authentication is needed to control risk. Mass transit agencies like freightliners, airlines, and light rail use NetIQ Advanced Authentication to implement a multi-factor authentication to protect their data and controls. As risks from transporting a wide rand of hazardous materials as well as people continue to grow, these organizations appreciate Advanced Authentication’s support of a wide range of readers that fits their budget and security needs. Education - private and public institutions: With so much sensitive and private information at stake, education institutions are adding another layer of access security to protect it by expanding their adoption of multi-factor authentication. These institutions have all sorts of personal information about their students as well as medical data of those who may need extra attention or monitoring. Beyond the student’s private information, they also hold personal information of their parents, which often includes credit card and bank numbers for financial transactions that occur each semester. With so much trust and liability at stake, Education centers are raising their level of security and user verification. Increasingly, some of these institutions offering convenient FIDO U2F devices for secure access. Micro Focus was one of the first vendors to join the FIDO Alliance and NetIQ Advanced Authentication was one of the first products to support U2F devices. Government: as government agencies around the world mature their security policies and formalize their multi-factor authenticating practices, NetIQ® Advanced Authentication has proven to be a great fit for them. Its open architecture and standards-based framework gives them assurance that they are not being subjected to vendor lock-in nor are they limited to authentication type supported by exclusive partnership agreements. As they extend strong authentication across their agencies, government organizations have noted how well the framework offers a solid foundation for both application and authentication integrations. Finance - local, regional and international banks and insurance companies: Government agencies around the world responsible for establishing guidelines, policies, rules, as well as audit procedures against them do so to ensure that these regulated organizations aggressively manage their risk. As such, multi-factor authentication has become a core component of keeping financial transactions and access to private information secure. NetIQ Advanced Authentication’s mobile SDK and rich set of supported methods have made it a popular solution for financial institutions. Healthcare: from doctor offices to clinics to hospitals, worldwide maturing privacy rules have imposed a significant change in how providers protect access to patient information. Each year these rules become more encompassing and detailed, and generally, there is a greater liability for those who fail to comply. It's with this pressure that health providers around the world take advantage of NetIQ Advanced Authentication's ability to integrate across all their systems. It's also allowing clinics to choose from a wide range of active and passive authentication types so clinicians can focus on patient outcome uninhibited. Advanced Authentication also integrates with various single sign-on solutions used to simplify secure access clinicians on the move or share access at a kiosk.