RSA gets into the one-time password game

Security: Identity Management This newsletter is sponsored by Juniper Networks Get the latest on NAC Learn the latest on Network Access Control in Network World's Perspectives Editorial Webcast. Discover how IT professionals can leverage this hot security technology in their networks, while also learning about key management areas that have not yet been perfected. Click here to listen today! Network World's Security: Identity Management Newsletter, 10/31/07 RSA gets into the one-time password game By Dave Kearns I continue to believe that the ubiquitous mobile phone will become the authentication token of choice in the near future. Heck, I’m not even sure why we still say “phone”; it’s a tiny, portable entertainment/camera/communications device which offers music, texting, instant messaging, photo and video display and generation, Web browsing, games, GPS services and, oh yeah, telephony. At the recent Digital ID World show, New Zealand-based Fronde showed me its one-time password (OTP) generator for mobile devices, and it was neat. But now the granddaddy of OTP is in the game. RSA last week announced the availability of the RSA SecurID Software Token (Version 2.2) for Symbian Operating System and UIQ. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading operating system for smart phones, which is licensed by leading mobile phone manufacturers; to date, more than 145 million Symbian smart phones have shipped worldwide to more than 250 major network operators. Businesspeople who use smart phones based on UIQ and Symbian OS can now leverage their devices to access protected corporate information securely, eliminating the need to carry a separate, stand-alone authenticator. UIQ, in case you weren’t aware, is the consortium of Sony-Ericsson-Motorola developing and promoting a flexible and customizable user interface and development platform integrated with the Symbian OS. The UIQ software platform enables the creation of an entire portfolio of highly diversified phones for different user segments, all based on a single codeline. Webcast: Get the latest on NAC Learn the latest on Network Access Control in Network World's Perspectives Editorial Webcast. Discover how IT professionals can leverage this hot security technology in their networks, while also learning about key management areas that have not yet been perfected. To learn more click here. This release, coupled with earlier releases (RSA also offers mobile software authenticators for RIM BlackBerry, Windows Mobile 5 and 6, Java Micro Edition and Palm devices), means that RSA’s SecurID is available from almost every mobile phone manufacturer and almost every network operator world wide. For those wishing to leverage mobile-based tokens in multi-factor authentication, there’s no longer a need for everyone in the organization to use the same device. Indeed, there’s no need for everyone to carry a cell phone. A judicious combination of mobile phones, PDAs, communicators and keychain fob tokens can all be used to access corporate assets protected by RSA Authentication Manager. This is the future, and those who get there first will be those who come out on top.  Editor's note: Starting Monday, Nov, 12, this newsletter will be renamed "Security: Identity Management Alert." Subscribers to the HTML version of this newsletter will notice some enhancements that will provide you with access to more resources relevant to identity management. You will still receive Dave Kearns' analysis of this market, which you will be able to read in its entirety online at NetworkWorld.com, along with links to relevant news headlines of the day. We hope you enjoy the enhancements and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Dave Kearns is the editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management as well as a consultant to both vendors and users of IdM technologies. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Complete Guide to eDirectory." His other musings can be found at the Virtual Quill, an Internet publisher which provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail. Comments to this newsletter can be e-mailed to Dave here.  This newsletter is sponsored by Juniper Networks Get the latest on NAC Learn the latest on Network Access Control in Network World's Perspectives Editorial Webcast. Discover how IT professionals can leverage this hot security technology in their networks, while also learning about key management areas that have not yet been perfected. Click here to listen today! ARCHIVE Archive of the Security: Identity Management Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE 90% of IT Managers are leaving their company at risk for a DNS ATTACK. Get the tools and resources you need to keep your DNS healthy and secure. Run a DNSreport on your domain today - 56 critical tests run in 8 seconds. Visit www.dnsreport.com to learn more. (apply coupon NWW2007NLA for a 25% membership discount) PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: security.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007