NavisRadius 4.0, $1,000 (500 simultaneous users), $4,800 (2,000 simultaneous users). Lucent Technologies, (888) 582-3686, (908) 582-8500. www.lucent.com
Secure Computing comes at authentication from the token side, though it uses partnerships to provide SSO and direct application support. If your plan for enterprise SSO goes through a Web server, PremierAccess will handle everything on its own. For authentication using login scripts that don't require a Web server, the product integrates with several third-party products. SafeWord PremierAccess also achieves directory synchronization through partnerships, this time with Maxware and Sun.
PremierAccess isn't a low-cost system by any means, coming in at the top of the range in this review. There are also costs to be borne if you intend to use a partner company to provide additional functionality. Having said that, Secure Computing provides versions of its tokens and servers that include integration kits, which promise to allow very easy integration with those partner companies' products, potentially saving significant money on the deployment side.
Like the other products we tested, PremierAccess has integrated hooks into AD, RADIUS and LDAP. The integration and method of establishing ACLs varies between the three: If there is an AD database with access rules and roles, then it is used, but if the authentication database is RADIUS or LDAP, the ACL can live on the PremierAccess installation. In any of these, the ACL can provide authorization information to accompany the user's authentication.
Token enrollment can be a bear if you need to deploy more than a handful, and here PremierAccess excels, offering the most capable token features of the products we tested. If your plans include two-factor authentication for an entire organization, this product will save you money when deploying tokens. For example, though PremierAccess does let you import a database or manually enroll individual users, the product's has a Web server option for self-enrollment.
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