Device / Credential Lifecycle Management

Enterprise organizations looking to deploy stronger (multi-factor) authentication technologies – including digital certificates, smart cards, one-time password devices and / or biometrics – realize that selecting the right technologies that best meets the needs of the business is only part of the challenge. Equally important however, is deploying and managing these technologies in an effective manner that makes sense and drives value for the business.

For example, the use of digital certificates and smart cards provide an excellent approach to deploying strong (multi-factor) authentication solutions across the enterprise. Digital certificates are a mature security technology and commonly used as a second factor authenticator in a wide range of applications and user scenarios including user / device authentication, data encryption and digital signatures. Smart cards provide a highly portable and secure way to store digital certificates and cryptographic keys in a manner that is tightly bound to a user’s digital identity.

Though digital certificates and smart cards provide additional benefits and flexibility to support a range of strong authentication scenarios – the use of these technologies inherently requires a robust management system with rich work flows and flexibility to meet a wide range of business and technical deployment considerations. Further, these technologies ideally need to be deployed in a manner that is integrated with an organization’s overall user provisioning and identity lifecycle management process.

These are challenges that can best be addressed with the right domain expertise. Avaleris has that domain expertise. Avaleris consultants have helped many global organizations to deploy strong authentication device and credential lifecycle management solutions – successfully.

Our service offerings are tightly integrated with core Microsoft identity technologies including Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager, Active Directory and Certificate Services. Our domain expertise and experience includes working with a range of leading smart card and token device vendors including Gemalto, HID Global and Quest Software.

Avaleris’ Identity service offerings in this area include:

• Strategy and Planning
• Readiness Assessments
• Solution Architecture and Design
• Pilot Testing
• Implementation and Roll-Out
• Knowledge Transfer and Training
• Ongoing Operational Support and Guidance