TechValidate Research on Entrust Datacard

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise telecommunications services company is based on an October 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
  • Increased productivity for IT staff and employees
  • Met regulatory requirement standards
• Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Entrust Datacard:
  • RSA
  • Duo Security
  • SafeNet
  • Vasco

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
  • Mobile push authentication / mobile solution suite
  • User self-service features

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Entrust Datacard:

• Increased productivity for their IT staff by 1-2 hours per work week with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.

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 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
  • Reduced costs
  • Replaced an existing authentication solution they felt no longer met their needs
• Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Entrust Datacard:
  • RSA
  • Gemalto
  • SafeNet
  • Symantec

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
  • 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 9-12 months after implementing Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
• Realized 25-49% of Return on Investment as a result of implementing Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
• Increased productivity for their IT staff by 0-15 minutes per work week with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
• Reduced costs by 25-49% with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.