Government

Citizen Facing Portals

As local, state, and federal government agencies utilize citizen-facing portals to better manage their business by reducing cost and increasing hours of service to their customers, the risk of traditional username password authentication solutions grows. These portals provide access to sensitive information about their constituencies – whether tax and financial information, medical details, or sensitive business transactions. With the known vulnerabilities of username/password solutions, portal owners have sought out two-factor alternatives, only, until now, to be daunted by the high cost of deploying tokens, key fobs, or cards to their broad-based constituency. Without two-factor authentication, the portals lack deep the functionality and richness needed to lure citizens to use the Web instead of driving costs through call centers or paper processing.

With Anakam.TFA™ Two-Factor Authentication, portal owners now have the ability to deploy true two-factor authentication without the cost and logistical burden incurred with the deployment of traditional solutions. Constituents will simply leverage existing assets for authentication. They will take advantage of the broad-based use of cell phones, pagers, desk telephones, and even other Internet access to better establish their access privileges, thereby dramatically reducing the risk of compromise without significantly impacting the flow of business.

Information Sharing

Government is working hard at finding better ways to share information. Information sharing systems are hampered by the fact that implementations with username and password alone are easily compromised and offer little non-repudiation. Without such capabilities, information sharing is handicapped – if we don’t truly know that the people we are sharing information with are the people with whom we intend to be sharing information, then what is the likelihood that the information we share will be of the highest quality and greatest relevance. To compound the situation further, with this lack of relevant and timely information, what is the likelihood that we will even adopt this solution.

Anakam’s products were developed specifically to counter these challenges. Whether you are creating a national system for sharing information between federal, state, and local entities, or if you are simply trying to connect two disparate agencies, Anakam.TFA™ enables increased adoption and reduced cost for implementation of the information sharing capability. At the same time, Anakam enhances the non-repudiation and identity management capabilities of current systems by providing true two-factor authentication with tools that participants in these information sharing systems already have on them– cell phones, pagers, telephones, or even Internet access. We have also incorporated identity proofing and credentialing within our application to enhance the existing Anakam.TFA™ authentication process such that you can conduct a hands-free ID proofing transaction and then bind their professional credentials to the identification transaction.

Further, to enhance the information sharing capabilities of our product, we have incorporated a digital rights management solution into our portfolio of capabilities. Now, if you use Anakam.TFA™ for authentication, we can enable selective, role-based, encryption and decryption of data on Web portals and popular office applications through our Anakam.DPS™ Data Protection System.

Token/Fob Replacement

Whether you are an agency CIO facing the ever-increasing costs of maintaining a token or fob infrastructure for your agency, or a program manager managing the daunting challenges of lost or missing tokens among field agents or representatives, Anakam.TFA™ provides an ultra-low cost alternative. We eliminate the need for the end-user token or fob – and thereby eliminate the need for the complex logistics management, obsolescence planning, and helpdesk solutions. In so doing, the costs of your authentication infrastructure drop dramatically. Additionally, we leverage the tools and capabilities already present with the government enterprise – cell phones, pagers, telephones, and Internet connections – providing the same level of security of legacy two-factor solutions.

The Anakam.TFA™ platform also enhances the end-user experience by enabling the customization of the challenge process based upon a series of pre-established environmental variables driven by IP analytics and situational behavior.

Anakam.TFA Government Compliance to Specific Authentication Regulations

Anakam.TFA™ meets the requirements of: