Authernative Inc. provides innovative patented software security solutions offering identity and access management capabilities including authentication, authorization, administration, and auditing. The company’s products are used to prevent unauthorized access to confidential data, protected resources, and transactions. They allow businesses and government agencies to lower the cost of providing, deploying and managing strong user authentication for enabling e-commerce, e-government and addressing regulatory compliance requirements.

There are several key market trends impacting the security industry. The first is a growing list of mandatory government and state requirements toward overall corporate and government security against cyber terrorism and fraud. Another important driver is the vigorous spread of electronic networks, in particular the Internet, with its ever increasing number of users and devices, resulting from electronic business proliferation and social penetration. While yet another factor is the adoption of new technologies especially web services, wireless networks, and identity management. Throughout all these advances, it is common knowledge that user authentication and authorization are the prime aspects in addressing security concerns when protecting IT resources.

As cyber crime continues to proliferate, organizations require enhanced protection of their digital assets and user community from unauthorized access, identity theft, and transaction risks. Authernative is committed to delivering innovative user authentication solutions to Government agencies to secure remote access, meet security initiatives, and reduce user authentication costs and complexities.

Authernative’s AuthGuard® user authentication and PassEnabler® authorization solutions allow agencies to expand trusted relationships with employees, users, customers, partners, and suppliers by ensuring secure access to mission-critical applications, information, resources, data, networks, and transactions. In addition, Authernative solutions help agencies address the following initiatives:

• Protecting Sensitive Agency Information (OMB M-06-16)
• Telework (§359 of Public Law 106-346)
• Safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information (OMB M-06-15)
• Federal Desktop Core Configuration – 12 character passwords (FDCC)
• E-Authentication Guidance for Federal Agencies (OMB M-04-04)
• Continuity of Operations (FCD 1)
• Homeland Security Information Sharing (HSPD)
• Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors (HSPD12)

Authernative's AuthGuard® user authentication product offers various authentication methods to meet government agencies’ security and usability policies for employee or public access. AuthGuard® product provides one-factor, layered, or multi-factor authentication that is electronically mass deployable, has scalable security, high usability and a low total cost of ownership. Authentication methods include enhanced password, graphical password, one-time challenge one-time response, out-of-band, one-time-pin and secure in-band authentication.

Authernative has received FIPS 140-2 certification for the Authernative® Cryptographic Module embedded in AuthGuard® user authentication product. It provides for secure mutual authentication and session-only random symmetric key distribution in client-server architecture enabled with a multifactor authentication scheme. The FIPS 140-2 compliance assures U.S. and Canadian Government customers, system integrators, & resellers that AuthGuard® product provides the highest level of protection for sensitive information and complies with strict government security regulations.

Authernative also has been awarded a GSA Schedule Contract to make it easier for Federal, State and Local Government agencies to procure solutions from a trusted vendor. The product pricing works well with government agencies' budget models, eliminating the need for replacement cycles and significantly lowering deployment and administration efforts and costs.

Authernative is a proud award recipient of “Best of SecureGov2006” by the Government Strategic Intelligence Council, designed to offer senior Government IT, Security and Privacy Officers insight into the latest developments critical to maximizing the protections of information resources, networks and critical infrastructure.