Poor password hygiene

The saying goes, “employees are your weakest link” as usually employees put your business at risk in many ways. One of the biggest risks is poor password hygiene. Not only do employees utilize the same password across multiple websites and applications, they sometimes freely share their passwords with friends, family and co-workers. If that isn’t a big enough problem, when businesses enforce password policies it usually causes their employees to use variants of their previous password or write their passwords on sticky notes.

A multi-factor authentication solution protects business against poor password hygiene by implementing, on top of the regular password, an additional password – e.g. by generating it on the employee’s phone. By having this solution in place, it prevents attackers from gaining access to your systems by simply guessing a weak password.

Data breaches

Today’s cybersecurity landscape has an increasing number of data breaches happening every day. One of the most common ways hackers can gain access to your company’s data is through weak or stolen passwords. In addition, to just protecting normal users logins to critical services, businesses can implement multi-factor authentication on all privilege escalation to prevent unauthorized administrative access.

By adding a multi-factor solution businesses make it much more difficult for hackers to gain access to your systems and ultimately compromise them. The top industries for data breaches are traditionally ones that have valuable data such as financial, retail, healthcare, and the public sector. However, that does not mean that other industries are safe, just that hackers typically weigh effort required versus the payoff.

Complience

When it comes to compliance, most businesses first need to understand whether they have to meet a compliance or not. Next, they have to review what requirements the compliance recommends and mandates that their business implement. When it comes to multi-factor authentication, now several compliances mandate that it be implemented such as PCI-DSS and GLBA, and most compliances in general stress the need for stronger authentication, including GDPR and HIPAA.

Multi-factor authentication has become no longer an optional solution for most businesses who handle credit cards or financial transactions, but rather a required solution. All businesses should do research and evaluate if they need

Remote management

ESET Secure Authentication uses its own streamlined management console accessible via a web browser. You can opt for integration with Active Directory, which makes setup and configuration quick and easy. Once installed, no additional training or services are required to deploy.

10 minute setup

The application was designed so a small business with no IT staff could configure it. Whether a business has five users or 100,000, ESET Secure Authentication keeps set up time to the absolute minimum.

No dedicated hardware required

ESET Secure Authentication includes everything you need. Simply install the 10MB application on any server and start provisioning.

Works with existing smartphones

No need for special tokens or devices for employees. ESET Secure Authentication works with all types of smartphones.

Full SDK and API included

For enterprises or companies that want to do even more with ESET Secure Authentication, we include a full SDK and API that businesses can use to extend functionality to fit your needs.

Push authentication

Lets you authenticate with a single tap, with no need to retype the one-time password. Works with iOS, Android and Windows mobile phones.

Use ESET Secure Authentication to protect:

• Access to your company’s VPN
• Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
• Additional authentication for desktop login (signing into an operating system)
• Web/cloud services via Microsoft ADFS 3.0, such as Office 365
• Outlook Web App (OWA)
• Microsoft Web Apps
• VMware Horizon View
• RADIUS-based services
• Exchange Control Panel & Exchange Administrator Center

Supported VPNs

• Barracuda
• Cisco ASA
• Citrix Access Gateway
• Citrix NetScaler
• Check Point Software
• Cyberoam, F5 FirePass
• Fortinet FortiGate
• Juniper
• Palo Alto
• SonicWall