Features

What is the difference between traditional Two-factor Authentication and ACS ProtectID

Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication?

There are two major differences. Two Factor Authentication involves two different authentication methods sent on the same network channel. ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication method grants access to online accounts by sending one of the authentication methods such as a password, over a channel that is separate from the other authentication method. In addition ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication was designed with multiple out of band methods to choose from to deliver flexible and redundant authentication.

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Which Out-of-Band Authentication methods do you offer?
ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication methods include biometric devices, smart cards, USB tokens, one-time password generators.
 
What biometric device methods does ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication offer?
ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication offers many biometric device methods including: finger print readers, iris scanners and voice-activated phones.

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What hard token methods does ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication offer?
Hard tokens include key fob, USB and wallet card

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What soft token OATH compliant methods does ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication offer?
ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication offers soft tokens for desktop and mobile device (iPhone,Blackberry, Android, desktop, other PDAs, etc) 

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What environments do you authenticate?
We authenticate VPN's, CItrix, domains, websites, Windows desktop login, SSO's, transactions, and others. Please ask your Tritium sales representative.

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Do you offer built-in authentication redundancy?

Yes, we offer built-in authentication redundancy across all the methods offered.

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How do you safely provision the ProtectID Multi-factor Authentication?

ACS Multi-factor Authentication has multiple safe provisioning methods including:

• Self Service Portal

• Active Directory Synchronization

• Web Manager

• HTTP Provisioning Interface

• Mobile "One Touch" provisioning

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Can ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication be managed on-premises?

ACS ProtectID Dual Channel Multi-factor Authentication can be managed on-premises, in our hosted cloud service or a hybrid of both.
 

On-Premises: For on-premises deployment, the server software can be deployed on a single virtual machine or deployed over several machines. ACS Multi-factor Authentication is built to be highly scalable.

Cloud: If you don't want to deploy it on your premises, you can use our Cloud service. Interfacing your applications to the Cloud service is easily accomplished with ACS Multi-factor Authentication

Hybrid: In a hybrid configuration, you could keep your user credentials on-premises and use the Cloud for the communication functionality.

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