ESET Secure Authentication Adds Integration To Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 And VMware Horizon View

ESET, security solutions provider, has updated its authentication IT security product. ESET Secure Authentication takes advantage of native support of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, VMware Horizon View, and many other VPNs, making it more attractive for businesses that use these VPN appliances with the intent to protect their sensitive infrastructure and data. This mobile-based solution - a highly secure mobile two-factor one-time-password (2FA OTP) authentication system - ensures safer access to company network when end-users use their mobile phones to connect to company networks.

This solution provides yet another layer to the authentication process besides the regular username/password. ESET Secure Authentication works with iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 and 8, Windows Mobile and J2ME-based phones. The solution even supports authentication based on SMS messages thus supporting older mobile phones unable to run the application. It is a client/server system where the server provisions the one-time-password and the client displays it so the user can use it for authentication in a supported system.

“Securing small and medium businesses assets and know-how, the updated version of ESET

Secure Authentication comes with integrated Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and VMware

Horizon View,” said Marek Chorvat, Business Project Manager at ESET. “Easy to install and

easy to deploy ESET Secure Authentication is a cross platform solution which doesn’t drain

your resources and adds noticeable layer of protection to your intellectual property,” he added.

Being on the market for several months protecting Outlook Web Access/App (and now also in

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013) and RADIUS, ESET Secure Authentication is now easy to

integrate for authentication into various other VPN Appliances such as Barracuda SSL, Check

Point Software SSL, Cisco ASA (IPSec), Cisco ASA SSL, Citrix Access Gateway SSL, Citrix

NetScaler SSL, F5 FirePass SSL, Fortinet FortiGate SSL, Juniper SSL, Palo Alto SSL and

SonicWall SSL.

ESET Secure Authentication is another addition to ESET portfolio of solutions protecting

company data in the age of mobile technologies, which is supported on Windows Server - 2003,

2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012. Throughout 2013, the solution was already launched in more

than 20 countries including United Kingdom, France, South Africa, Czech Republic, Slovakia,

New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, United States, Canada,

Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Middle East, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal and

Romania. The client application is available in these languages: English, German, Russian,

French, Spanish and Slovak.

According to ESET the key benefits of the solution are -

Broad Mobile Platform Support: Users using most of the modern mobile devices including

iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 and 8, Windows Mobile, and J2ME-based phones

can be protected via this solution. The preferred authentication vector is the ESET Secure

Authentication mobile application. This application is downloaded to the end-user’s mobile

phone, allowing generating secure, one-time passwords. As a bootstrapping and additional

authentication vector, text-based SMS messages are supported for users who cannot install,

or have not yet installed, the mobile application.

Familiar Management Environment (MMC and ADUC plug-in): Windows Administrators will value

from an easy day-to-day Active Directory user-level administration that utilises the

familiar Active Directory Users & Computers management tool, as well as from the integration

with the frequently used Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

Automatic Configuration: Installation of the mobile application is designed to be simple and

seamless, starting with a “double-click” installer. The user clicks on a link in a text

message, which installs the application.

“Securing small and medium businesses assets and know-how, the updated version of ESET

Secure Authentication comes with integrated Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and VMware

Horizon View,” said Marek Chorvat, Business Project Manager at ESET. “Easy to install and

easy to deploy ESET Secure Authentication is a cross platform solution which doesn’t drain

your resources and adds noticeable layer of protection to your intellectual property.”