Oracle Mobile Authenticator

Oracle Mobile Authenticator is the application for "authentication on the basis of a marker" (token-based authentication).

On April 10, 2014 the Oracle corporation announced release of Oracle Mobile Authenticator, application which helps the organizations to implement cost-efficient strict authentication and to prevent unauthorized access to crucial information and data on clients.

Description

To provide to employees and clients access to confidential data, in the organizations confirmation of authenticity of identification data of the user using two-factor authentication will be organized.

This aspect of security becomes more and more important in the conditions of growth of risks and threats of information security. Costs for implementation of methods of strict authentication, were always unreasonably high, and, besides, most of users perceived the idea to constantly carry with itself an USB token (electronic key) or a plastic smart card for confirmation of the personality in bayonets.

Resolving these questions the Oracle corporation released a new component of a complex of products for access control of Oracle Access Management Suite - Oracle Mobile Authenticator. Using this application the personal mobile phone or the tablet of employees and clients can become the device for confirmation of the second authentication factor that allows to avoid the difficulties inherent to hardware tokens or smart cards and connected with their distribution, service and recheck of electronic protective keys. Oracle Mobile Authenticator helps the companies which want to protect employees and clients from fraud, to implement approach, more effective from the economic point of view, to ensuring secure access of users.

Using Oracle Mobile Authenticator of the company can secure in addition business applications and data, without limiting freedom of employees and clients in a question of use predpochtitayemy to them personal devices. Oracle Mobile Authenticator works on mobile devices, generating the protective code on the basis of a time line and providing the relevant service which allows applications to accept authentication on the basis of a program token (soft token authentication). The complete solution for strict authentication and access control of Oracle Mobile Authenticator also gives to the organizations an opportunity of use of uniform infrastructure of access control for use of the SSO mechanism (single registration), establishments of the entrusted relations between the organizations and implementations of federal SSO, identification of cases of fraud, management of tokens and also the SSO organizations for all corporate applications.

The solution allows use, without additional payment, a broad spectrum of implementers of the second authentication factor, including generation of a program token, the Google application of Authenticator and providing access on the basis of behavior model (behavior-based access). Oracle application of Mobile Authenticator and Oracle Adaptive Authentication service are included in structure of the platform of management of identification data of Oracle with the last update of Oracle Identity Management of version 11g of R2 which also contains improvements for support of cloud and mobile applications and a number of new features and opportunities.

Oracle Mobile Authenticator is available to loading with Apple Store and Google Play.