Create and Manage your own Digital Identities with Avoco Secure’s Identity Provider
Avoco Secure’s Information Card Identity Provider enables you to issue and manage your own managed Information Cards.
A managed Information Card provides a high assurance identity, which may be used to control access to your corporate assets such as web-sites as well as document portals such as Microsoft's SharePoint®
In addition, Avoco Secure has extended this functionality by enabling Information cards to be used for controlling access to documents and emails, as well as for digitally signing web forms with enhanced non-repudiation.
Simple to deploy and totally customisable, the Avoco Secure Identity Provider is actually designed as an out-of-the-box solution to allow enterprises, etc., to issue and manage their own cards, for enterprise identity. This could be as a managed service or in house deployment. The cards are standard, managed, Information cards that may be used with any compatible selector. The Avoco Secure Identity Provider could be used by any commercial organisation that wants to issue managed cards and requires a simple yet powerful solution that supports a wide range of authentication and permits extensive customisation e.g. branding, issuance of cards containing custom claims, etc...
Benefits of hosting your own Identity Provider
Control |
Both issuance and use of identities are under your control. You can expire, change or revoke issued cards, control issuance to third parties, etc. |
Security |
Because the system is hosted in-house, there are no third party security or privacy issues. |
Customisation |
You set the authentication method used to access cards, and any required custom claims such as employee number or a clearance level. You can also choose your own card image and customise logon screens. |
Features of the Avoco Secure Identity Provider
- Simple to install on either a Windows or Unix-type server.
- Selectable authentication with any or all from password, personal Information card or X509 digital certificate.
- Card image and login screens are fully customisable for branding, etc.
- Custom claims may be added e.g. user security clearance level.
- Supports card revocation.
- May be deployed for access from the Internet or a corporate Intranet.
Securing with Identity
Avoco Secure's technology enables digital identities to be used to:
Control access to document and email content
Utilising Avoco Secure's secure2trust, you can control access to, and use of (e.g. copying or printing), the content of documents through the digital identities encapsulated in managed Information cards. Controls are applied regardless of the location of the document.For example, a security policy could be applied to a given document so that only Information Card users, issued with a card by their organisation, and with minimum specified security clearance (from a custom claim in the card), could access the content, and use it within the restrictions set within the policy. By issuing cards to third parties you could also control the use of your documents outside of your corporation.
More details on using secure2trust with Information Cards can be found here
Allow you to digitally sign web forms using your Information card
With a digital identity from a managed Information card and Avoco Secure’s secure2signhtm, your users can now digitally sign web forms with high assurance - without owning a digital certificate.
Avoco Secure's digital signing technology produces an industry-standard format signature that is enhanced by including an image of the web page at the time of signing, ensuring non-repudiation of the signature - without this image, a signer could dispute what was displayed at the time of signing.
To try out digital signing with a Information identity, please visit our demonstration site:
http://www.secure2signonline.com
Further information:
To see a demonstration of the typical end user experience of the issuance of a managed Information card, please go to the Avoco Secure demo site here: https://www.secure2cardspace.com
For further details on the Avoco Secure products, please contact info@avocosecure.com
To see a demonstration of ant-phishing using a managed Audit Information card, please go to the Avoco Secure demo site here: https://www.secure2informationcard.com
