TechValidate Research on Entrust

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise insurance 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
  • Replaced an existing authentication solution they felt no longer met their needs
• Evaluated the following vendors before choosing Entrust Datacard:
  • RSA
  • Secure Auth
  • Symantec
  • Nexus

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
  • Risk based authentication / transparent authentication
  • User self-service features
  • Future-proof platform (ie: support for next generation authentication methods)
  • 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.
• Increased productivity for their IT staff by 4+ hours per work week with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.

Introduction

This case study of IT Servicios de Venezuela is based on a September 2015 survey of Entrust Datacard customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

• 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 vendor before choosing Entrust Datacard:
  • RSA

Use Case

• Most important product features to the purchasing decision:
  • Broad support for many authenticators and use cases
  • Risk based authentication / transparent authentication
  • Future-proof platform (ie: support for next generation authentication methods)
  • Deployment flexibility with rich integrations, APIs, and SDKs

Results

• 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 2-3 hours per work week with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.
• Reduced costs by 25-49% with Entrust Datacard’s authentication solution.