News about leading technology for two-factor authentication via SMS
Today, Citrix posted a new video that shows the seamless user experience really well. This is a demonstration of the new two-factor SMS authentcation solution on the Citrix Receiver for iPhone 2.0 developed with SMS PASSCODE is used.
See it here: www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/1637
The Red Herring Global 100 award recognizes the leading private companies from North America, Europe, and Asia, celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries. Among the companies are SMS PASSCODE®, a previous Red Herring 100 EMEA award winner, for being a fast growing technology leader in two-factor authentication via SMS.
To learn more about the award and the list of the 100 winners, click here.
This award comes on the heels of previous recognition by leading publications of the industry leading SMS PASSCODE two-factor authentication technology by Secure Computing Magazine as a Top 5 Innovator and today as one of only three Authentication Solutions finalists of the 2010 Global Product Excellence awards honored by Info Security Products Guide (Visit Award Nomination Site).
Citrix Systems has released the new Citrix iPhone Receiver 2.0 for the iPhone. The receiver comes for the first time ever with SMS Authentication support from SMS PASSCODE® – a technology leader in two-factor authentication via SMS. SMS PASSCODE and the Citrix engineering teams have worked jointly on developing this new embedded support.
The new solution incorporates a more secure yet also more intuitive user experience, where the user first enters user name and password after which the SMS PASSCODE solution sends a one-time-passcode via SMS to the iPhone SMS application that once clicked launches the receiver authenticated.
SMS PASSCODE has released the version 3.1 which is the version supporting SMS Authentication for Citrix Receiver for iPhone.
The screenshots below illustrates the solution and the improved ease of use:
Read about the announcement of the collaboration at our news site.
Try the SMS PASSCODE solution live at demo.smspasscode.com.
To learn more about the Citrix iPhone Receiver, visit Citrix.
SMS PASSCODE version 3.1 now supports SMS authentication of the new Outlook Web Access 2010, Citrix iPhone Receiver 2.0 and latest Citrix web access
SMS PASSCODE® – The technology leader in two-factor authentication via SMS, today announced a new release 3.1 adding new client and platform support. New to this release is protection of new login systems, platform support and increased monitoring:
SMS PASSCODE version 3.0 has been validated and achieved Citrix certification. Test scenarios involve the Citrix Access Gateway, Netscaler and Web Interface platforms.
We have some more good news for our Citrix customers as the flagship SMS PASSCODE version 3.0 product has achieved Citrix Ready certification. The joint Citrix and SMS PASSCODE solution gives customers the industry leader in virtualization and access infrastructure protected with a new-generation two-factor SMS Authentication via your mobile phone.
For those that do not know it, the Citrix Ready is a program that identifies recommended solutions that are trusted to enhance the Citrix Delivery Center Infrastructure. SMS PASSCODE is a long standing Citrix partner and has for a while been awarded a Citrix Community Ready status. “The very first releases of SMS PASSCODE were designed for Citrix’s widely adopted Web Interface system. Since then, we have worked diligently to support all Citrix products and are very pleased that we have also have been officially certified for doing so. “ Says David Hald, co-founder and CEO, SMS PASSCODE A/S. “Particularly with the Citrix products, we have leveraged their program interfaces to deliver a very user friendly and seamless integration that helps giving joint customers a smooth and thus successful rollout of the combined solution” continues David Hald.
The certification involves Citrix SMS Authentication for both the latest versions of Citrix Web Interface, as well as Citrix Access Gateways in the Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions as well as the Netscaler product line.
Learn more here.
Some exciting news … today SMS PASSCODE® was recognized by an expert panel at the SC World Congress put in place by Secure Computing Magazine, a globally recognized publication within the computer security industry as a winner in the Security Innovators Throwdown cotest.
The internationally recognized SC Magazine has named SMS PASSCODE a finalist in their “Security Innovators Throwdown” to be announced at their annual conference in New York City.
Copenhagen, September 28, 2009 – SMS PASSCODE® – The world’s leading two-factor authentication technology using your mobile phone, today announced that SC Magazine, a globally recognized publication within computer security solutions, has named SMS PASSCODE to their finalists list of the 10 most promising Security Innovators. The Security Innovators Throwdown judges have based their determinations on which vendors had the most robust business plans and tools to attract buyer interest and financial investment.
IDG News Services announced yesterday that a new version of the trojan Zeus virus has surfaced that can capture user name, password and as something new also one-time-passcodes from tokens and send them to a hacker via instant message. Tokens have been around for 20 years, so it is not a surprise that this approach now is under pressure from modern threats on the Internet.
Tokens come in two variations: one that has a code that changes every 2 minutes and ones that has a code that is valid until used. This new virus instant messages the code to the hacker real-time enabling also the time constrained tokens to be easily compromised.
The need for a new generation technology just got a lot more urgent. The new generation of solutions need to be challenge and session specific like SMS PASSCODE. Essentially, this new generation of solutions first validates a challenge in the shape of user name and password. Once validated, the system generates and sends a one-time-passcode via SMS to the users cell phone. That code is session specific – or in other words will only work for that specific login attempt and has no value to a hacker if snapped. This is a more secure approach that protect against these modern threats on the Internet.
Learn more at : http://www.networkworld.com/
SMS PASSCODE® has been awarded to present as one of only 24 companies at this weeks Tech Tour Conference taking place in the region of Denmark and Southern Sweden. The Tech Tour is a conference that has a clear objective to identify the upcoming and leading high-growth privately held technology companies in Denmark/Southern Sweden region and to introduce them to key European, US and Asian investors and professionals who can assist in their global expansion.
To learn more visist http://www.smspasscode.com/
SMS PASSCODE announced today the latest release of the technologically leading two-factor authentication solution via the mobile phone SMS.
The new release incorporate a set of enterprise class scalability and reliability features in a simple to implement fashion. This further extent SMS PASSCODES technology lead over the competition and bring features to the market that can enable mainstream adoption (read also in the SMB market through hosting and easy install). To do so, the release also include support for Microsoft technologies like Terminal Services 2008 and SharePoint using the new Intelligent Application Gateway. This supplement the other Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Windows and Terminal Services 2003 support in addition to other clients for Citrix, Cisco etc.
Read the release at http://www.smspasscode.com/Default.aspx?ID=501
