v-GO Single Sign-On
v-GO SSO is a proven Enterprise Single Sign-On solution that works with all of your applications, without a lengthy and complex implementation effort. Whether you are deploying strong authentication, implementing an enterprise-wide identity management initiative or simply focusing on the sign-on challenges of a specific group of users, v-GO SSO's architecture supports your technical requirements and computing environment.
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v-GO® Universal Authentication Manager
Many organizations want to deploy stronger two-factor authentication for Windows logon to improve security and support regulatory compliance efforts, but are deterred by the cost and complexity of most solutions that often times locks them into a single form of strong authentication. v-GO Universal Authentication Manager (v-GO UAM) eliminates these concerns with an open architecture that supports any authentication device, use of the organization’s existing back-end network infrastructure, and easy end user logon.
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Technical Criteria Important to the Selection of Single Sign-On
Most SSO vendors claim to provide single sign-on for the enterprise, and while they technically may be able to demonstrate SSO in a test or RFI environment, buyers would be wise to consider the following additional capabilities and requirements which affect the security, feasibility, and cost of SSO deployments.
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v-GO Shared Accounts Manager
v-GO Shared Accounts Manager provides quick and secure access to systems and applications for administrators, temporary workers, and others who must share account IDs. It enables shared credentials to be securely stored and retrieved, with the needed authorization and usage tracking to improve security, increase accountability, and reduce compliance exposure.
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v-GO Provisioning Manager
Organizations that have deployed Passlogix's v-GO Single Sign-On (v-GO SSO) understand the benefits of automating password management: reduced password-related helpdesk costs, enhanced security and higher employee productivity.
These benefits are clear, but they can receive a further boost through the automation of the credential distribution process. And that is precisely what v-GO Provisioning Manager (PM) does. With v-GO PM, administrators can pre-populate end users' v-GO SSO credential stores so that users never have to touch, or even know, their application credentials.
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v-GO Self-Service Password Reset
It happens all the time. A user tries to log into a corporate network but can't remember his or her Windows password when prompted and is locked out of everything. Lock outs cost money because the user can't work and has to call the company's helpdesk to reset the password. As much as 30 percent of all helpdesk calls are password-reset requests, on average taking 20 minutes to resolve and costing more than $23 on helpdesk costs alone, says market research firm Gartner.
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v-GO Access Accelerator Suite: HSPD-12
This whitepaper discusses integration between v-GO Access Accelerator Suite and the PIV smart card. This paper assumes that the reader is familiar with HSPD-12 and FIPS PUB 201 and their implementation for logical access control.
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What Every Security Executive Needs to Know
Every information security executive is familiar with the problems of password fatigue, password inflation, and the associated burdens on end users as well as network administrators. The irony is that so many companies fail to implement the most effective antidote: enterprise single sign-on (ESSO).
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Ensuring Safety & Compliance for Privileged Accounts
v GO SAM provides quick and secure access to systems and applications for administrators, temporary workers, and others who must share account IDs. v GO SAM plugs a significant security and compliance hole commonly found with shared accounts - accountability. Because v GO SAM automatically ties actual users to shared IDs, enterprises, for the first time, know who is using what shared account and when.
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The Need for ESSO
Every information security executive is familiar with the problems of password fatigue, password inflation, and the associated burdens on end users as well as network administrators. The irony is that so many companies fail to implement the most effective antidote: enterprise single sign-on (ESSO).
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PCI & Strong Access Control -The Shortest Distance to Compliance
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Requirement 8 mandates the use of unique IDs for each individual with access to consumer credit card information. This whitepaper outlines the specific provisions of the Requirement 8 directive and details v-GO's strategies for addressing each of them.
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Strong Authentication and v-GO SSO
The purpose of this whitepaper is to examine the benefits of integrating v-GO SSO with strong authentication.
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Safeguarding Financial Privacy: Single Sign-On--One Step in Assuring Service Providers Protect Your Customers' Personal Financial Data
The purpose of this whitepaper is to illustrate how enterprise single sign-on can help financial institutions oversee service providers in compliance with the GLBA while ensuring only authenticated employees access financial data.
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The Road to HIPAA Security Rule Compliance
The purpose of this whitepaper is to examine the way Passlogix's suite of products address several HIPAA security rules. Content Index * Administrative Safeguards * HIPAA Security Rule to v-GO Mapping
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Enterprise Single Sign-on and HIPAA: A Best Practice in the "Good Faith Effort" to Protect Patients' Privacy
The purpose of this whitepaper is to demonstrate how SSO is an effective method of authorizing access to personal health data and resources, and holding medical staff accountable for their activities.
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Implementing ESSO in an Identity Management System
How to enhance security, reduce support costs, simplify administration, increase productivity, and ensure compliance through centralized password control.
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The Benefits of an Industry Standard Platform for Enterprise Single Sign-On
The need for scalable solutions to the growing concerns about enterprise security and regulatory compliance can be addressed more reliably, efficiently and consistently when an enterprise's authentication solutions are built on an industry standard platform for enterprise sign-on.
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Strengthening IT Security for the Nation's Energy Infrastructure
The purpose of this whitepaper is to examine the benefits of Passlogix's v-GO Sign-On Platform for IT and end-users in the Oil and Gas Industry.
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Does Single Sign-On Really Expose the Network to a "Keys to the Kingdom" Attack?
Single Sign-On enables the user to authenticate once in order to access many resources. Does this single point of authentication also introduce a single point of attack and thereby reduce all network security?
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The Death of Passwords
3 Easy steps to increasing user productivity, enhancing authentication, and lowering password reset costs with Enterprise Single Sign-On.
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v-GO Yields Sign-On Relief for 230-Branch Haspa Bank
Until 2001, employees at Germany's 230-branch Hamburger Sparkasse (Haspa) needed only one password to access their daily banking applications because all programs were developed in-house with a central password manager. That changed when the savings bank began adding third-party software applications and systems. By 2008, users had to remember and manage different password formats and update policies for up to 14 applications.
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v-GO Doubles Revenues for Passlogix Partner Gatux Solutions
In 2005, Quebec-based Gatux Solutions had a client with a help desk problem. The customer had a 40-person help desk handling 36,000 calls per month, nearly 70% of which were password reset requests. In looking for a password management solution to reduce help desk costs. Gatux founder Jean-Pierre Savoie determined that enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) technology was the best approach and selected Passlogix's v-GO Access Accelerator Suite for its ease of deployment. Since then, Gatux has changed its business focus to ESSO, become a Passlogix partner, and doubled revenues as a v-GO reseller and deployment specialist.
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CPG Manufacturer Signs on With Passlogix & Gemalto
In many organizations, password management projects are initiated by the IT team. For one Midwest consumer product goods manufacturer, however, the mandate came straight from the executive suite. Frustrated by the hours squandered by users required to remember, manage and manually input six to ten application passwords every day and the additional time involved in resetting forgotten usernames and IDs, senior executives instructed IT staff to find a more efficient sign-on strategy that would also be secure.
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An Executive Briefing with Tom Cleveland, Information Security Analyst, University of North Carolina Hospitals
An Executive Briefing with Tom Cleveland, Information Security Analyst, University of North Carolina Hospitals In 2007, UNC Healthcare deployed Passlogix v-GO Single Sign-On (v-GO SSO) as the first step in a broad identity management initiative designed to simplify application access for the nearly 6,000 users at the system's seven hospitals as well as ensure the security of patient information. UNC is now preparing to add strong authentication to the identity infrastructure, leveraging the ability of the v-GO Sign-On Platform to extend single sign-on to any kind of two-factor authenticator. Here UNC's Tom Cleveland explains his organization's identity and access management strategy.
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Passlogix Delivers for U.S. Postal Service
v- GO SSO Deployed in World's Largest Enterprise SingleSign- On Installation. The United States Postal Service employs 800,000 career and contract employees,including 157,000 desktop computer users in 20,000 buildings dispersed through the country. Each day, these postal employees had to use multiple passwords to access the array of applications they need for their jobs.
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Passlogix Delivers for Baptist Healthcare System
Passlogix delivers convenient and secure access to Baptist Medical Center's Physician Order Entry System. Doctors are busy people who require quick access to patient records when and where they need them. But to protect patient confidentiality, access also must be secure. So when Baptist Health, the leading community health care provider in Northeast Florida, decided to replace its application-specific authentication system, security and user convenience topped the list of requirements.
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Irish Life signs on with Passlogix
Irish Life & Permanent is a leading provider of personal financial services in the Irish market. The group formed from the merger of Irish Life and Irish Permanent plc in 1999. Irish Life is Ireland's largest life assurance company and the market leader in the provision of life, pension and investment products. Permanent TSB is the retail banking operation of the group and is the leading provider of residential mortgage finance in Ireland. Confidence in the probity and security of any financial services organisation is the lynchpin of its reputation but all security measures must be balanced with operational efficiency.
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SINGLE SIGN-ON PAYS OFF FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM
For years, passwords had been a thorn in the side of a leading U.S. investment management firm. Many users had to remember and manage up to 10 application passwords, and the company's 350 call center representatives faced the additional challenge of having to re-authenticate 20 or 30 times a day whenever their customer service application timed out - frequently in the middle of a customer call.
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