Verizon Advances Enterprise Identity Protection

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Verizon has announced an enhanced set of Enterprise Identity Management offerings that dramatically improves the way companies authenticate the identities of employees, partners and customers. This can significantly increase an enterprise's ability to fend off data breaches caused by ID theft and fraud.

The enhanced suite of services delivers advanced protection and increased ease of use for enterprises grappling with how to best manage identity authentication. Verizon's unique solutions set - which is delivered "as-a-service" via the cloud - can help enterprises control costs and significantly reduce the complexity and risk associated with identity management programs.

"For the most part, we have found that authentication methods used by enterprises today are either inadequate or difficult and expensive," said Peter Tippett, Verizon, Vice President of security and industry solutions. "Until now, there's been no single service that delivers a total-solution offering that includes the critical features - such as registering users, providing identity proofing and issuing identity credentials - required to truly meet the needs of today's enterprise."

Verizon currently manages 25 identity programs for countries around the globe, and in November the company announced a massive program with the U.S. medical community to issue identity credentials to 2.3 million health care professionals to help physicians manage online access and the secure exchange of confidential patient information. Reaction from participants has been very positive, reported Tippett. Verizon expects the uptake for this key enabling service to increase significantly throughout 2011.

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