Airtricity To Deploy Evidian’s Single Sign On Solutions for Secure Application Access
(18/01/2008)

Airtricity, the renewable energy company, is to deploy Enterprise SSO and Mobile E-SSO solutions from Evidian, for all its users internationally. The solutions have been supplied by Evidian premier partner in Ireland, Evros.

The Evidian single sign-on solutions will enhance Airtricity’s staff productivity by simplifying systems access, without compromising security. It also eliminates the risks of staff having to remember and use multiple passwords to access key applications.

The Evidian Mobile E-SSO solution is also giving Airtricity staff secure access to corporate applications from any PC or PDA anywhere, via a web portal. Uniquely Mobile E-SSO manages the central user directory and password repository to ensure that staff can always gain secure remote access to corporate resources.

Liam Ó'Riain, IS Operations Manager for Airtricity commented: “We wanted to protect access to our corporate information with a single, consistent security policy that’s easy to use and with minimal support overhead. The Evidian solution will provide this, integrating with our Active Directory model. It will also give the same benefits of simple, secure remote sign-on to staff when they are away from the office, which is a key business enabler for us.”

Caroline Godsil, managing director of Evros said: “This SSO solution will give Airtricity real benefits in terms of enhanced security, ease of use, and a rapid ROI through reduced helpdesk support for replacing or resetting user passwords. We’re very pleased to be working with one of the fastest-growing energy companies in Ireland on this project.”

Evidian’s E-SSO solution increases enterprise security by enforcing application password policy. It automatically creates and changes application passwords, improving user productivity and regulatory compliance, and cutting helpdesk costs. Industry analysts estimate over 30% of helpdesk calls are for password resets.

Evidian’s solutions secure access to all types of corporate application – whether Windows, Citrix, Linux, Unix, web-based or mainframe. They combine multi-factor authentication with a plug-and-play SSO solution, replacing user passwords with digital signatures based on certificates, smart cards, USB keys, or biometrics. Access is authorised according to existing security policies and enterprise directories.

With Evidian Mobile E-SSO, users may connect securely to their web applications from any external PDA or PC's browser via a web portal. Mobile E-SSO enforces the security policy and cuts the cost of administration using the same repository. E-SSO can be deployed on its own or integrated with the majority of identity management solutions. It is supported by Evidian's modular identity and access management (IAM) suite, which offers complementary functions including Web/J2EE access control, identity management and user provisioning.

Evidian E-SSO is available for Windows XP, 2000, 2003 and Vista workstations. For thin clients, Evidian E-SSO is also available in the Windows Terminal Server and Citrix (MetaFrame, Presentation Server and NFuse) environments.