Executive View: RSA Adaptive Authentication - 70889

Adaptive Authentication uses risk-based policies to evaluate a user’s login and post-login activities against a range of risk indicators. Systems then ask for additional assurance of the users’ identities when a risk score or policy rules are violated. This risk and context-based authentication and authorisation methodology provides transparent authentication for the majority of the users, and provides an appropriate level of risk mitigation for those who are in untrusted positions. The level of assurance for a given identity depends on the risk of identity theft calculated from the user´s activity or the criticality of the resources to which access is requested...