RSA Via™ Family of Identity Solutions Unveiled

RSA, The Security Division of EMC launched the RSA Via™ family of Smart Identity solutions, engineered to combine authentication, identity and access management, and identity governance into a unified solution.

The newest offering under the RSA Via family is RSA Via Access, a SaaS-based solution that is designed to allow users to more easily and securely authenticate themselves by taking advantage of multiple convenient authentication methods resident within their into mobile devices.  Unlike traditional authentication methods, RSA Via Access is built to rely on intelligent context rather than just static rules to provide a more seamless and agile method of access, the press release said.  With a hybrid-cloud approach, RSA Via Access also helps allow organizations to maintain control of the privacy and security of identities, combating one of the main hurdles to cloud adoption.

The company said, RSA Via removes friction between business and IT by automating identity management processes, placing them in the hands of the business managers themselves, and enabling a simple user experience for authentication, single sign-on, access review, and access request.  The RSA Via solution also takes a business-driven approach to provisioning.  It is designed to allow organizations to centrally create access policies and automate access processes, helping to ensure that they meet business, compliance, and efficiency demands.

The RSA Via portfolio includes RSA SecurID and RSA Adaptive Authentication, and contains the three following solutions:

• RSA Via Access –enables enterprises to regain business agility with secure and convenient access beyond passwords.  Contextual, strong, step-up authentication through a smart mobile device is embedded seamlessly with SSO, to validate who is who.
• RSA Via Governance – simplifies the task of governing user access across the enterprise. It helps enable companies to achieve sustainable compliance by automating the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements. RSA Via Governance, built on the RSA^® Identity Management and Governance platform acquired from Aveksa, provides enterprise-wide visibility into user access privileges, automates user access reviews, and highlights orphan user accounts and inappropriate user access.
• RSA Via Lifecycle – simplifies and automates how access is requested, approved and delivered. It combines a business-friendly interface for access request and approval, with an innovative approach to automated provisioning across all target systems. RSA Via Lifecycle, built on the RSA Identity Management and Governance platform acquired from Aveksa, provides an easy-to-use service for requesting and approving access, and for rapidly executing user access changes without manual effort across key applications on-premise or in SaaS environments.

For RSA SecurID customers, the new release of RSA Via Access opens up new opportunities to extend security since the two platforms are interoperable through service engagements. The same RSA SecurID tokens designed to be used to protect an organization’s VPN and other enterprise apps can be used with the RSA Via Access service to protect access to cloud and mobile environments.

Availability:
RSA Via Lifecycle and RSA Via Governance are currently available, and RSA Via Access will be available June 2015.