Company Overview

As the global leader in biometric devices, SecuGen has literally made security its business. SecuGen provides biometric solutions for physical and network security, employing the most advanced fingerprint recognition technology currently available. 

A critical factor in SecuGen’s success has been the ease with which its optical recognition devices integrate into a variety of computing environments. Because its sensors are available in both stand-alone and PC-connectible configurations, SecuGen biometric devices can be integrated into virtually any type of operating platform or application.

Business Challenge: 
  Strengthen Authentication and Provide Access Control to SGDN

SecuGen maintains two external networks: one for its Partner Network (SPN) and another for its developer network, the SecuGen Developer Network (SGDN). Through SGDN, SecuGen provides developer resources that enable clients to create custom software applications that use SecuGen peripherals for user authentication.

Said Won Lee, CEO of SecuGen, “we had multiple user groups obtaining information through SGDN. But we didn’t differentiate between these groups, or track user behavior. Basically, once a user identity had been verified, that user had access to all the resources within our extranet.”

Solution

“Integrating SentryAccess software into SGDN web and authentication servers provided SecuGen with the robust authentication and authorization needed to keep pace with their growing user population,” said Steve Hong, Nenix’s CTO and SentryAccess architect. It also has provided SecuGen with a method for tracking and monitoring site visitor behavior, which can be very valuable for a security-minded organization. Registered SGDN users are now authenticated through a combination of SentryAccess and SecuGen technology.

Results

For Lee and his SGDN developer community, SentryAccess lives up to its promise of delivering secure access control and authorization. “Protecting resources and assigning user groups is easier than we expected. We can even delegate administrative responsibility to a as many different people as we choose,” said Lee. “Further, by combining SecuGen’s fingerprint recognition technology with SentryAccess we are able to protect our developer resources behind an additional authentication layer. And now, access to these resources is reserved for only those having the proper entitlements. As an added benefit, we are able to monitor and track user behavior, which is reassuring.”

Lee pointed to Nenix’s all-inclusive solution as a key factor in choosing SentryAccess. “Several vendors required us to purchase additional modules to get the same functionality Nenix delivers as standard, such as auditing and logging features,” Lee said. “With Nenix, there was just the one software purchase, and we got everything we needed: authentication, access control, with easy-to-use auditing, logging, and reporting tools included.”

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