Cryptocard

BLACKSHIELD Cloud –formerly CRYPTO-MAS – is the world’s first authentication-as-a-service offering, bringing organisations the cost reduction and simplicity benefits of SaaS-style authentication:

• A full virtual enterprise authentication server available from the cloud that is
  “ready to go in minutes” and is backed by a 99.999% SLA
• No infrastructure requirement, no ongoing infrastructure costs
• No upfront costs, just “pay per user” pricing
• Our powerful easy-to-use management portal provides automated management,
  provisioning and reporting

Based on the BLACKSHIELD authentication platform, BLACKSHIELD Cloud allows organisations to benefit from:

• The widest choice of authentication tokens and tokenless methods, including
  support for 3^rdparty tokens such as RSA tokens. Click here to see BLACKSHIELD TOKENS
• The ability to protect anything: networks, applications and the Cloud.
  CLICK here to see What Do We Protect
• Drastically reduced management time through automation of user set-up, provisioning,
  management and reporting, as well as extensive self service functionality

Low TCO has been architected into every aspect of this solution:

• Simple, low per-user pricing model with no hidden or extra costs
• Huge range of non-expiring physical tokens and re-assignable software and SMS tokens
• minimise token costs
• Integration into existing user stores such as LDAP and automation of management tasks
• reduces management time by 90%
• Self-healing tokens  prevent synchronisation issues and increase user satisfaction and
  lower help desk costs
• User self-service removes the need for help desks for most common user needs

Operational security is built into BLACKSHIELD Cloud

• Latest encryption algorithms used to generate passcodes, to encrypt user data and to
  protect all communication between different components
• Passcode length and complexity can be set to reflect your preferred security posture
• Policy driven management platform that automatically monitors and protects against
  attacks such as brute force and Denial of service
• Operational role segregation and delegated management
• Built in reporting for compliance audit and accounting

Security is unsurpassed, and our system will offer you the ability to comply with all relevant regulatory standards, including SOX, PCI and HIPAA.

Automation of all Management tasks

By automating the provisioning, administering and managing of users and tokens BLACKSHIELD drastically reduces the single biggest cost of an authentication system, often by an order of magnitude. We achieve this by:

• Tight integration with user directories such as LDAP – enabled via a simple synchronisation
  agent which allows custom provisioning processes that are carried out automatically
• Pre-authentication rules that provide automated authorisation and access control
• Extensive user self-service and push and pull of soft tokens and tokenless methods,
  which also increase user satisfaction and remove help desk costs

In short BLACKSHIELD Cloud allows authentication to run in the background: unseen and without significant cost.

World Class Infrastructure

From an infrastructure point of view, BLACKSHIELD Cloud is hosted on CRYPTOCARD infrastructure in fully secure data centres around the globe, allowing our customers to relax and IT staff to focus on authentication outcomes – not the management of more servers and applications. With fully redundant architectures in each data centre and fail over between data centres, the 99.999% SLA on offer surpasses the industry norm. Latest security standards and regulatory compliance standards are met.  The solution is instantly scalable to tens of millions of users.

Migration to BLACKSHIELD Cloud

Whether from static passwords or alternative strong authentication solutions is a risk-free and trouble-free process.

• Migration from passwords can be done without user disruption, without user training,
  and without service interruption – let BLACKSHIELD Cloud do the work.

Migration from other vendors’ tokens can be done whilst preserving your investment in
their tokens as users carry on using them until they expire or break, and with zero impact
on users and administrators.