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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


    
 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

3.2.1
    
 OTP Tokens
3.2.2
    
 Tokens With PKCs
3.2.3
    
 Other Kinds of Authentication Tokens
3.2.4
    
 OOB Authentication
3.3
    
 Biometric Authentication
3.4
    
 Mutual Authentication
4.0
    
 Broad-Portfolio Authentication Vendors

    
 Recommended Reading


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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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