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Defender 5.1 Features Summary

Support for a wide variety of authentication requirements

• Including local logon to Windows, UNIX, Citrix MetaFrame and NFuse.
• Remote access to Dial-in, VPN, Web Access control.

Multiple Authentication Servers

• Fault tolerance and load balancing – Authentication Servers can be installed on local sites to provide whatever degree of resilience is required.

Full RADIUS proxy

• Facilitates migration from and enables integration with existing authentication solutions, ensuring migration and upgrade can take place organically if required, minimizing the levels of disruption to the enterprise.

Security policies and roaming users

• Group based Security policies can be applied at various levels through the use of existing Active Directory management interface.
• Support for time based access control through Active Directory.
• Roaming users feature provides support for global companies.

Comprehensive Web Based Reporting

• DSS Configuration report
• Token and User report
• Auditing

Schema Extensions and MMC Snap-Ins

• Enables Defender license, token and Security Server configuration information to be stored in Microsoft Active Directory
• Adds Defender credentials to each user’s record
• Centralized administration using Microsoft “Active Directory Users and Computers” management tool

Defender Tokens

• Vendor Neutral stance to hardware and software tokens.
• Mobile (SMS) tokens.
• Multiple tokens may be assigned to each user.
• Multiple users can be assigned to a token.
• Web-based token self-registration dramatically reduces administration costs.

Optional Components

• Defender Token Self-Registration Service
• Defender Mobile
• Defender desktop login
• Defender WebMail
• Defender Agent for Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite
• Defender UNIX PAM module

Defender Security Server: Core Components

• Use of recognized industry standard RADIUS
• Retrieves user, token and configuration information directly from Microsoft Active Directory
• Multiple Servers can be installed for fault tolerance
• Proxies authentication requests for non-Defender users
• Support for legacy Defender 4 Agents

Summary

• Provides strong, two-factor authentication for many applications using hardware and software tokens
• Full integration with Microsoft Active Directory
• Uses industry standards
• Simple migration path from other authentication solutions through use of migration wizard