Cyber Defense Magazine - Annual RSA Conference 2019 - Print Edition

Five Things You Need to Know
About Next-Gen Authentication
By Dana Tamir, VP Market Strategy at Silverfort
Currently four out of five breaches
involve the use of compromised
or weak credentials. Enforcing
multi-factor authentication
(MFA) has been proven as the
most effective measure against
these attacks. Yet mainstream
MFA solutions, that were
designed to be implemented for
specific systems, make it difficult
to protect many resources in
today’s complex and dynamic
networks.
The next generation of
authentication introduces
a new approach to enable
seamless MFA that can protect
any organizational resource, no
matter what it is, or where it is. It
no longer requires deployment
of software agents on protected
systems, or proxies in the
network, enabling organizations
to protect any sensitive resource
on-premises or in the cloud with
a holistic adaptive authentication
approach.
Here are five things you need
to know about Next-Gen
Authentication:
1. It’s easier to deploy and
maintain: Since it doesn’t require
deployment of software agents or
network proxies, the deployment
is very quick (typically hours)
even in large complex networks.
In addition, there is no need
to patch or update agents
on protected systems which
minimizes ongoing maintenance.
2. It can protect systems
you couldn’t protect until today:
Many sensitive systems aren’t
supported by mainstream MFA
solutions including proprietary,
homegrown and legacy systems,
IoT and critical infrastructure.
With an agentless, proxy-less
approach, for the first time it’s
possible to protect these systems
without any special or costly
customizations.
3. It unifies protection
across on-premises and cloud
environments: The holistic
nature of the agentless approach
enables you to unify MFA
management and consolidate
auditing across all sensitive
systems, regardless of their
location.
4. It continuously adapts
to risk levels: By continuously
monitoring and analyzing
all access requests, across
on-premises and cloud
environments, it leverages an
advanced AI-Driven risk-engine
to dynamically calculate the
most accurate risk-score per
user, device and resource, and
can automatically step-up
authentication requirements
when risk levels are high.
5. It improves security
while reducing disruptions:
Until now, threats detected
by security solutions weren’t
blocked because false-positive
alerts could result in unwanted
disruptions to legitimate users.
Next generation authentication
enables you to trigger stepup
authentication in response
to detected threats, allowing
legitimate users to authenticate
and continue working while
blocking true-positives.
With identity-based attacks
on the rise, can you afford to
leave your mission critical
resources unprotected? Next-
Gen Authentication opens a new
chapter in enterprise security,
offering organizations a new way
to protect more systems than
ever before, with less effort and
disruptions.
Dana Tamir, VP Market Strategy
at Silverfort
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