Quest Defender
Affordable, Achievable Security
Today, compliance and security demands are moving organizations to levels of security beyond the traditional username and password. Two-factor authentication — combining "something you have", for example a token, with the "something you know" of usernames and passwords — has quickly moved to the forefront of most organizations' security and compliance initiatives.
Defender, from Quest Software, provides just such a solution in an extremely flexible and affordable alternative. It is a critical component of any security infrastructure, adding strong authentication to your network, Web, and application based resources. Defender provides a unified, vendor neutral, fully scalable infrastructure that can grow and adapt with the ever-changing needs of your business.
Defender verifies authentication requests and enforces authentication policies across enterprise networks based on your existing investment in Active Directory and the identities, roles, and rules already present in that de-factor enterprise directory. Defender represents a revolution in security technology. It scales to accommodate the world's largest networks while protecting enterprise-wide Virtual Private Networks (VPN), remote access, and e-business applications.
Benefits of Defender
- Defender is vendor independent – Support for multiple tokens: hardware, software, OATH and a proprietary mobile SMS solution.
- Architected throughout on strong industry standards.
- Simple migration using RADIUS proxy feature, ensuring painless migration from other authentication solutions with absolutely no impact on the user experience.
- Includes secure low-impact user self-registration.
- Defender is fully integrated with Active Directory – Leverages your existing investment in Active Directory and its scalability, security, and compliance.
- Provides heightened security with maximum flexibility – Defender provides strong two-factor authentication for virtually any access need on any required system or application.
- Achieve compliance – Provides the ability to audit and report on strong authentication statistics and delivers remediation for access control concerns allowing you to "prove" compliance to auditors.
- ZeroIMPACT – Migration to Defender with no impact on existing/incumbent solution
Defender delivers the quickest and most affordable path to security and regulatory compliance by enabling token-based, Active Directory-centric, two-factor authentication to any system, application, or resource.