Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

ActivIdentity launches new multi-layered strong authentication for financial services

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

ActivIdentity Corp. has launched the 4TRESS Authentication Appliance FT2911 model, a product that offers multi-layered strong authentication, fraud detection and cloud security capabilities for the financial services industry.

Geared toward enterprises, banks and e-commerce sites, the 4TRESS Authentication Appliance consists of over 15 strong authentication methods users can integrate with its authentication and fraud detection capabilities.


4TRESS supports Web, mobile and PC soft tokens and provides Out-of-Band OTP for transaction-level authentication. In addition, 4TRESS profiles PCs both at time of registration and during each login to rate risk and allow access.

For security within the cloud, 4TRESS provides OTP, OOB and smart card strong authentication in front of SAMI V2-enabled cloud applications.

To expedite integration for online banking users, 4TRESS supports many industry standards, has flexible APIs and pre-configured templates. The product can be used with a centralized security management system, yet be fully localized. [end] 

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ActivIdentity has added a fraud detection service and authentication capabilities to its 4TRESS Authentication Appliance. Targeted to the banking industry, 4TRESS offers multi-layered strong authentication for both network and cloud services.

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