Where is NetIQ Advanced Authentication used the most?

By a wide margin, security bodies and rule makers, as well as the organizations themselves, focus on protecting their remote access points such as VPNs, firewalls, and intelligent routers with multi-factor authentication (MFA). One significant change in the market today is that MFA for remote access is only the starting point for most corporations who once they start using NetIQ Advanced Authentication see opportunities across the organization. Its standards-based open architecture allows diverse types of strong authentication implementations coupled with a central point of administration for far less money than legacy solutions. Securing authentication at endpoints – Windows PC, Linux PAM, Mac OS X: unlike other popular multi-factor authentication products, NetIQ Advanced Authentication has an optional client that provides offers support for more user scenarios and authentication options. The Client gives organizations the ability to support platform-centric methods like Windows Hello for Business and other types of biometric readers, provides offline authentication, and secures single sign-on access to virtualized environments. For Microsoft customers NetIQ Advanced Authentication allows them to extend strong authentication to the last mile of their business. It provides authentication types not available in Azure or the Windows platform as well as a central point of administration for users and applications that extend beyond the Azure platform. Beyond Microsoft’s platforms, organizations without Advanced Authentication are limited to Microsoft’s identity validation factors. In addition to expanding an organizations authentication options, Advanced Authentication can leverage Windows Hello for Business to verify identities for access to applications and resource regardless of their location or platform. Standards-based application integration: enterprises use NetIQ Advanced Authentication to protect access to their applications and services across all of their business units. They’re able to do this by leveraging Advanced Authentication’s support for OAuth, OATH, FIPS 140, PKI12, RADIUS, HSPD11, NFC ISO/IEC and others.