Gemalto Launches Protiva One Time Password Application for Mobile Users

SAN FRANCISCO & BARCELONA, Spain - Tuesday, February 15th 2011 [ME NewsWire]

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(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, introduces Protiva Mobile OTP, a convenient, secure and cost-effective new way for businesses and their employees to deploy two-factor authentication, simply using their mobile phones. The new solution is part of Gemalto’s Protiva Strong Authentication family, which encompasses the validation server and a range of Protiva authentication application software and authentication devices that allow businesses to choose the solution that best fits their needs. One Time Password (OTP) replaces static passwords with strong authentication and provides a convenient additional level of security for transactions and access control.

Protiva Mobile OTP works with the popular handset platforms used in business today, including Blackberry, iPhone, including the handsets running Java, Windows CE and Brew. Employees simply need to download Gemalto’s secure app onto their mobile phone, which is setup to immediately generate and receive OTPs using the phone as the interaction and computing device.

Combining the mobile credential with their username and one-time-password grants employees the appropriate access to company resources such as a VPN, intranet, mail directory, digital signature, mail and Web pages. Protiva Mobile OTP is simple for IT administrators to deploy and provision, and is compatible with the majority of industry-leading IT infrastructure elements.

“Mobility and security are two of the fundamental drivers shaping the way businesses are run today,” said François Lasnier, Senior Vice President of Online Authentication at Gemalto. “Protiva Mobile OTP provides a convenient and effective way for businesses of any size to deploy secure access to their network with minimal investment and change to their IT infrastructure.”

Gemalto will demonstrate Protiva Mobile OTP and other strong authentication server solutions at booth #1945 at RSA Conference 2011, February 14th through the 18th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information about Protiva SA Server and solutions, visit http://www.gemalto.com/products/strong_auth_server/.

About Gemalto

Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security with 2009 annual revenues of €1.65 billion, and over 10,000 employees operating out of 75 offices, with research and service centers in 41 countries.

Gemalto is at the heart of our evolving digital society. The freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain, and work—anytime, anywhere—has become an integral part of what people want and expect, in ways that are convenient, enjoyable and secure.

Gemalto delivers on the growing demands of billions of people worldwide for mobile connectivity, identity and data protection, credit card safety, health and transportation services, e-government and national security. We do this by supplying to governments, wireless operators, banks and enterprises a wide range of secure personal devices, such as subscriber identification modules (SIM), Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) in mobile phones, smart banking cards, smart card access badges, electronic passports, and USB tokens for online identity protection. Moreover Gemalto delivers on emerging applications related to the ‘Internet of things’ by supplying wireless modules and machine identification modules (MIM) for machine-to-machine communication. To complete these solutions we also provide software, systems and services to help our customers achieve their goals.

As the use of Gemalto’s software and secure devices increases with the number of people interacting in the digital and wireless world, the company is poised to thrive over the coming years.

For more information please visit www.gemalto.com.
Contacts

Gemalto

Jessi Marshall, +1-512-257-3902

North America

jessi.marshall@gemalto.com



Peggy Edoire, +33 4 42 36 45 40

Europe, Middle East & Africa

peggy.edoire@gemalto.com



Ramzi Abdine, +55 11 5105 7659

Latin America

ramzi.abdine@gemalto.com



Yvonne Lim, +65 6317 3730

Asia Pacific

yvonne.lim@gemalto.com