TechValidate Research on Entrust

Introduction

This case study of a Fortune 500 telecommunications services company is based on a September 2015 survey of Entrust Datacard customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Entrust Datacard:

• Solved the following challenge by deploying Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution:
  • Reduced the amount of security risk
• Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Entrust Datacard:
  • RSA
  • Secure Auth
  • Symantec

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Entrust Datacard that the surveyed company uses:

• Most important product features to the purchasing decision:
  • Risk based authentication / transparent authentication
  • User self-service features
  • Deployment flexibility with rich integrations, APIs, and SDKs

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Entrust Datacard:

• Realized a Return on Investment in 1+ year after implementing Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
• Realized 1-9% of Return on Investment as a result of implementing Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise health care company is based on a September 2015 survey of Entrust Datacard customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Entrust Datacard:

• Solved the following challenges by deploying Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution:
  • Reduced the amount of security risk
  • Simplified the authentication process for end users
  • Met regulatory requirement standards
• Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Entrust Datacard:
  • RSA
  • Secure Auth

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Entrust Datacard that the surveyed company uses:

• Most important product features to the purchasing decision:
  • Broad support for many authenticators and use cases
  • Deployment flexibility with rich integrations, APIs, and SDKs

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Entrust Datacard:

• Realized a Return on Investment in 6-9 months after implementing Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
• Increased productivity for their IT staff by 1-2 hours per work week with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
• Reduced costs by >75% with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.