The RSA Complete Enterprise-Grade Passwordless Solution

Passwordless for every threat. Every environment. Every user. Every device.

While multi-factor authentication (MFA) provides essential cybersecurity capabilities to organizations, it isn’t enough. Threat actors are now using social engineering, malware, and deepfakes to bypass traditional MFA. In response, we’ve seen government mandates, regulations, security models like DORA, executive order 14028, NIS2, OMB M-22-09, and more requiring phishing-resistant authentication. Emerging threats and new compliance mandates require more than just MFA; they require passwordless authentication.

Passwordless Solutions Designed for Modern Cyberattacks

While many vendors can support point passwordless solutions that cover individual user groups or use cases, RSA delivers organization-spanning capabilities at scale regardless of environment or use case. RSA fortifies this broad range of passwordless options with a deep security platform that secures the authentication process, detects threats in real time, and stop attacks before they start.

The RSA passwordless solution is built to withstand emerging cyberattacks. Through phishing-resistant passwordless methods that protect against malware, brute force attacks, fraud, outages, and bypasses, RSA stops bad actors from stealing intellectual property and disrupting operations.

Phishing-resistant

Malware-resistant

Brute force-resistant

Fraud-resistant

Outage-resistant

Bypass-resistant

Secure enrollment

Secure recovery

Desktop log-on

SaaS sign-on

Access requests

Offline access

Secure Passwordless Solutions for Every Identity Lifecycle Use Case

The adoption of passwordless technology has spurred threat actors to evolve their tactics. Cybercriminals are now using post-passwordless tactics like technical support scams that target critical stages in the identity lifecycle, socially engineering the IT help desk, or deploying malware-as-a-service, deepfakes, fraud, and brute force attacks to bypass it altogether and breach organizations.

RSA protects its passwordless solutions across the identity lifecycle with a range of layered security capabilities. These features also help organizations account for the most frequent use cases and manage passwordless credentials efficiently and at scale.

Passwordless for Every Environment and Platform

Organizations implement these technologies to enhance security and recoup costs by minimizing IT help desk support. But organizations will fail to realize enhanced security and cost savings with point passwordless solutions, which will leave coverage gaps in user groups, environments, or both. RSA provides one complete solution that can account for all users across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, ensuring that the same passwordless capabilities are deployed securely everywhere, remaining efficient no matter the IT infrastructure.

Cloud

Hybrid

On-prem and data centers

Sofware authenticators

Hardware authenticators

Offline / Clean Room authentication

Passwordless Solutions for Every User Group and Device

To manage passwordless efficiently at scale and to keep authentication secure, organizations must account for every user group and device. That means providing passwordless hardware and software authentication, and ensuring that users who are unable to connect to the internet can still use passwordless authentication.

RSA accounts for every user and device by supporting a range of passwordless form factors.

Helping Protect the IT Help Desk

Organizations like Scattered Spider are targeting IT help desks with technical support scams for a number of reasons:

It’s easier to socially engineer a human operator than it is to break multi-factor authentication (MFA).
IT help desks have wide cybersecurity latitude and can create new accounts, reset passwords, suspend MFA, or take other actions that can affect an organization’s security posture and precede a ransomware attack.
Technical support scams can cause significant harm. Victims of IT help desks attacks include Marks & Spencer which lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Scattered Spider used the same tactic on MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment Group’s help desks and launch ransomware attacks that cost hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and fines. Threat actors have also targeted healthcare IT help desks.

RSA Help Desk Live Verify (patent pending) helps keep organizations safe from ransomware, social engineering, and technical support scams. Part of RSA ID Plus, the first-of-its-kind feature uses bi-directional identity verification to ensure that both users and IT staff are who they say they are, protecting against attackers impersonating users or help desk agents.

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