HealtheLink is a health information exchange in western N.Y. that wanted to help health care providers give patients better care. Instead of having to carry around multiple medical records from different doctors the exchange enables providers to look up records from different provider via a secure network. But securing this network is a difficult task. Gina Jordan, contributing editor at Regarding ID, spoke with Dan Porreca, executive director at HealtheLink, about the network’s choice of Anakam for strong authentication. She also spoke with Dr. William Braithwaite, chief medical officer at Anakam, to find out how the system works.

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ActivIdentity Corporation will introduce a new mobile security solution at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) 2010 for BlackBerry Users April 27th – 29th in Orlando, Fla.

The new product is specifically designed for the BlackBerry user and features a secure microSD card that enables users to sign secure emails digitally or provide two-factor authentication when accessing protected networks from a remote location. 

Robert Beliles, vice president of enterprise business development at Hirsch Electronics, talks about the company’s physical access control gateway that combines physical and logical networks for better security. “This links physical access control events to trigger network responses,” Beliles said at the RSA Conference.

For example, some organization have a problem with tailgating, where one employee follows another in without swiping a credential. With this new system an employee would not be able to access a computer network unless he swipes in on a physical access control reader.

“Most of the time this goes unnoticed but now we can turn this into a new policy,” Beliles said.

Most agree that using two-factor authentication for access to secure networks is better than simple user names and passwords, but a report from Gartner Research states that hackers have found ways to compromise these more advanced systems as well.

Trojan-based, man-in-the-browser attacks have found vulnerabilities to one-time password tokens and could also be used against biometric and smart card technology, says Avivah Litan, vice president and analyst at Gartner Research. A layered security approach can help protect individuals from these kinds of attacks. 

In an effort to save a hefty annual collaboration cost, Avago Technologies began using the solution products A-OK and ArcotID from cloud authentication company Arcot Systems Inc. Some changes that came along with the switch include the adoption of platforms such as Google Apps Premier Edition and instillation of multilevel authentication.

Primarily, the Avago decision to adopt Arcot Systems now gives the supplier company protection from security threats including phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks. 

Entrust Inc. introduces a new authentication method geared toward combating man-in-the-browser attacks and hazardous malware. IdentityGuard Mobile features authentication solutions to consumer and enterprise bankers who own smart phones.

The IdentityGuard product in collaboration with Entrust TransactionGuard markets itself as begin able to target the problems antivirus and traditional authentication software has yet to address or solve. 

DIGPASS for Mobile, the latest solution from VASCO Data Security, will be showcased at MEFTEC in Bahrain, April 20 - 21. The mobile security solution uses a two factor authentication feature on smart phones to deliver secure e-banking, m-banking, phone banking using IVR and cash retrieval at the ATM.

With more and more man-in-the-middle attacks and fraudulent activity in e-banking and m-banking, banks have focused on providing customers with one-time password and digital signature components when accessing accounts and completing transactions. These security options create another level of authentication that can operate on a mobile phone.