Competition is high and the margin for IT mistakes are low. For customers, one security mistake could be disastrous. Ultimately, ASPs need to protect customer's valuable data that is in transit over open networks between servers, between enterprises and between clients and servers. And they need to know beyond a doubt who they are doing business with. ASPs must provide trust to their customers by ensuring that the person sitting on the other side of the Internet is who they say they are.
Employee accessing confidential information is authorized to access restricted information.
In addition, most ASPs are judged by their reliability and availability ratings, which means that taking down one server could affect the bottom line. Furthermore ASPs must rely on technical solutions which interoperate with their customers, and partner's ever-changing IT infrastructures there is little room for proprietary technologies. RSA Security works with the ASP sector because we develop security technology that allows no room for error. RSA SecurID provided two-factor authentication so that employees at the ASP strongly authenticated themselves before accessing customer data. RSA Keon digital certificates and RSA SecurID smart cards are being piloted to offer strong PKI-based authentication to meet the security requirements of new customers.