CRYPTOCard (www.cryptocard.com), the leading authentication technology developer for heterogeneous environments, is proud to announce that Taiyo Yuden (USA), world leader in materials and electronics technology, has implemented CRYPTOCard’s two-factor authentication to secure remote access to its Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) VPN. Taiyo Yuden’s 95 remote users and outside consultants can now gain simple “One-PIN-and-You’re-In” secure VPN access from Windows XP Professional laptops via CRYPTOCard’s ST-1 software token. Staff that require access from multiple computers utilize CRYPTOCard’s KT-1 hardware token that attaches to a keychain.
“We were looking to deploy a remote access VPN to provide salespeople, consultants, and workers working from home with secure network access, and realized that this meant implementing some kind of two-factor authentication,” said Jimmie Irizarry Jr., Communication Engineer, Taiyo Yuden (USA). “We looked at RSA’s SecurID, but it was very expensive,” Irizarry continued. “CRYPTOCard’s solution proved far less complicated – and the price was just perfect for us.”
Taiyo Yuden was able to simplify its system by removing the additional Cisco Access Control Server layer. In fact, CRYPTO-Shield’s seamless integration with Taiyo Yuden’s security applications, including its Cisco VPN and Cisco ASA 5520 firewall has made it simple to strengthen VPN security with two-factor authentication.
“In recent years, the sophistication of the increasing number of hackers who infiltrate company networks has far outstripped any advances in system security,” said Jason Hart, CEO, CRYPTOCard Europe. “As a former ethical hacker I can tell you that it is increasingly simple for unauthorized users to get hold of a user’s credentials, and this means that a VPN, or any other security solution that relies on static passwords to authenticate users, is extremely vulnerable,” Hart continued. “CRYPTOCard is pleased that Taiyo Yuden has selected CRYPTOCard’s two-factor authentication as a simple and cost-effective method of addressing this significant security weakness.”
Taiyo Yuden’s selection of CRYPTOCard due to its simplicity and affordability agrees with the findings of a recent Butler Group report.
“The market for solutions such as CRYPTOCard’s strong authentication that can demonstrate ease-of-use, value-to-business, and provable ROI, will grow significantly,” explained Andrew Kellett, Senior Research Analyst, Butler Group.
Developed for real-world networks – where Linux and Mac workstations often live in a mixed Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows domain, with Windows clients and Apache or IIS Web servers – CRYPTOCard’s event-based two-factor authentication tokens make it simple and cost effective to replace weak static passwords with a password that is randomly generated for every logon attempt. One-time passwords cannot be reused by hackers, and eliminate both the help-desk costs associated with resetting forgotten passwords and the security risk resulting from users writing them down.
About Taiyo Yuden (USA)
Established in 1950, Taiyo Yuden (6976 JT) is the leading manufacturer of quality capacitors, inductors, circuit modules, and optical recording media such as CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. With 19,656 employees worldwide, and sales of 186,539 million yen (as of March 31, 2006), Taiyo Yuden’s corporate network now extends to many parts of the world, with manufacturing bases in Japan, South Korea, China, the Philippines and Malaysia, and sales offices in the United States and a number of countries in Europe and Asia. The company's North American affiliate, TAIYO YUDEN (U.S.A.) INC., operates sales and engineering offices in Chicago, Dallas, Raleigh, Boston, Denver and in California at San Jose and San Diego. For further information, visit the company's website at: www.ty-top.com.
About CRYPTOCard, Inc.
CRYPTOCard is a leader and innovator in the Network Authentication Industry. Its multi-awarded two-factor authentication options include both a server-based or ‘product’ solution (CRYPTO-Shield), a Managed Authentication Service (CRYPTO-MAS), and a completely-adaptable, do-it-yourself developer’s tool, AuthEngine, which makes it simple to embed CRYPTOCard’s technology into any custom application or environment. The combination allows organizations of any size and means to adopt a strong authentication policy. CRYPTOCard is unique in the industry in its commitment to ensuring its products/services work with any common network architecture including OS compatibility (Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X), web-server flexibility (IIS, Apache), and database options (Active Directory, LDAP, Open Directory, etc). Add to that the outstanding ‘out-of-the-box’ interoperability with many top industry network solutions including Citrix (Nasdaq: CTXS), Checkpoint (Nasdaq: CHKP), and Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), and you begin to see how CRYPTOCard has grown since its origin in 1989 to become a thriving enterprise doing business in more than 70 countries. For more information on CRYPTOCard, please visit www.cryptocard.com.
CRYPTOCard, CRYPTO-Server, CRYPTO-Admin, CRYPTO-Deploy, CRYPTO-Logon, CRYPTO-VPN, AuthEngine and CRYPTO-Web are trademarks of CRYPTOCard, Inc. Other products mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
