Contextual Authentication: A Multi-Factor Approach

Contextual Authentication works behind the scenes to prevent unauthorized access and applies the appropriate level of authentication.

Roaming users and remote access to confidential data are becoming a major security concern. In response, many organizations are over-steering towards rigid Two-Factor Authorization, which cannot adapt to different user scenarios, resulting in poor user adoption and increased frustration.

Between security and usability comes contextual authentication (or context-based authentication), which applies the appropriate level of authentication based on the context around a user's access request, including location, time, device, network, and application. For example, employees in the office may only need to provide strong passwords, whereas a traveling salesperson must provide two factors. However, a traveling salesperson now in the office only needs to provide a password to prove his identity, due to his new situation when requesting access.

With a primary focus on contextual authentication, PortalGuard provides dynamic security to enhance usability for users and strengthen security to match your organization's policies and compliance standards.

Benefits of PortalGuard Contextual Authentication:

• Increase security without impacting the end-user experience
• Increase usability for authorized users while creating barriers for unauthorized users
• Configure all options down to the individual user, group, or application levels
• Lower the total cost of ownership, compared to token-based two-factor authentication alternatives
• Proactive approach to reducing threats — block suspicious users in real-time before a login attempt is made
• Gather insights into user access scenarios and dynamically adjust the authentication method
  

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