Authentication Solutions - By Role

Executive Management (C-Suite)

Challenge

To keep up with the speed of business, organizations must provide globally and remotely-based employees, customers, partners and vendors (often thousands of people) with streamlined access to corporate intranets and extranets which may contain sensitive corporate and customer information.  CIOs and other members of an organization’s executive team are concerned with making sure that databases and applications are readily available to the people across their enterprise who need them, however they want to ensure those same databases and applications are protected from access by unauthorized persons. 

IT executives and the rest of the C-suite are also focused on meeting the security requirements of corporate security policies and governmental and industry regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and other initiatives.  By not maintaining compliance with these regulations, they risk receiving corporate and financial penalties and potential damage to the company’s reputation due to theft of critical or customer data.

Above all, executive management’s primary corporate objective is to reduce costs and rein in any unnecessary expenses, with an eye toward improving the company’s bottom line.  

Solution

PistolStar’s Password Power and PortalGuard enable end-users to use their Microsoft Active Directory password to achieve single sign-on and perform password resets for numerous enterprise applications, such as Lotus Domino and Notes, IBM WebSphere and System i, SAP and Oracle. 

By reducing the number of passwords end-users must possess and manage, Password Power and PortalGuard help meet corporate objectives — IT calls are dramatically reduced, IT staff can greatly diminish downtime, and there is a sizable increase in productivity among both IT personnel and end-users, resulting in a positive impact on the organization’s bottom line.  Cost-savings are also realized as a result of heading off potential security breaches caused by issues that can arise in the authentication and password management process.

Password Power and PortalGuard also incorporate authentication security best practices, playing a significant role in meeting the security requirements of government and industry regulations and helping organizations avoid penalties and reputation damage due to non-compliance.

Most importantly for the executive team, deploying Password Power and PortalGuard can help their organization realize a significant return on its investment in just 45 days — a benefit that places PistolStar’s solutions at the top of the “must-have technologies” list.