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Market Overview: Authentication
26 September 2008
 
Ant Allan  

The number and variety of authentication products have mushroomed during the past seven years. Established vendors have expanded their portfolios and many new vendors have entered the market.




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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Analysis
    • 1.0 Preamble
    • 2.0 Market Dynamics
      • 2.1 The Need for New Authentication Methods
      • 2.2 Architecting for Choice
      • 2.3 Online Consumer Security
      • 2.4 Enterprise Use Cases
      • 2.5 OTP Standards
      • 2.6 OOB Authentication
      • 2.7 Adaptive Access Control
      • 2.8 Versatile Authentication Servers
      • 2.9 Managed Authentication Services
      • 2.10 The New Authentication Vendors
    • 3.0 Authentication Vendors
      • 3.1 Knowledge-Based Authentication
      • 3.2 Authentication Tokens
      • 3.3 Biometric Authentication
      • 3.4 Mutual Authentication
    • 4.0 Broad-Portfolio Authentication Vendors
  • Recommended Reading
Figures
Figure 1.
Knowledge-Based Authentication
Figure 2.
Vendors Offering Knowledge-Based Authentication Methods
Figure 3.
Authentication Tokens
Figure 4.
Vendors Offering OTP Tokens, Part 1
Figure 5.
Vendors Offering OTP Tokens, Part 2
Figure 6.
Vendors Offering Tokens With PKCs, Part 1
Figure 7.
Vendors Offering Tokens With PKCs, Part 2
Figure 8.
Vendors Offering Other Kinds of Authentication Tokens
Figure 9.
Vendors Offering OOB Authentication Methods
Figure 10.
Biometric Authentication Methods
Figure 11.
Vendors Offering Biometric Authentication Methods
Figure 12.
Broad-Portfolio Authentication Vendors, Part 1
Figure 13.
Broad-Portfolio Authentication Vendors, Part 2




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