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RSA is the de facto standard in the authentication market. However, besides the advantage of price, Swivel has other advantages that you will find beneficial.
 ??With RSA the user has to carry around a token and these can be left at home, in the car, etc. With Swivel, the authentication data is sent to the user's mobile phone or PDA. And as users tend to look after their mobiles and make sure they carry them around with them, the user has the authentication data to hand.
??With RSA, tokens are costly to manage and administer if they go out of sync or are lost by the user. Because Swivel does not use tokens, this entire problem is circumvented. The result is lower cost of ownership and easier administration.
??Another area of difficulties with tokens is their lack of failsafe backup. Besides, if the user forgets or loses his token, an administrator patch is required to authenticate. With Swivel the Web browser interface gives you the backup you require.
??Financially, token based authentication is expensive to deploy. After 3 years they will need replacing and that means more expenditure. As Swivel does not use tokens, you don't have this additonal and cyclical financial burden.
??Further, with Swivel you get a range of interface options, giving flexibility to the administrator and user.
??Swivel has no time synchronisation issues - this reduces the cost of administration.
??If you are looking at rolling out to a B2C online service, you will find the cost of token-based authentication (because of the cost of token to the consumer) prohibitive. Also, with RSA, if the consumer wants secure access to multiple services they will need multiple tokens, thus raising the cost higher still. Yet with Swivel the user's mobile phone can carry multiple SMS?s (Short Message Services) for the different services.
Summary
To summarise, Swivel has these inherent benefits against RSA and other token based solutions.
??Significantly reduced risk of ID theft. In other words, increased information security and minimised risk of fraud or of the system being compromised.
??Utilises existing mobile devices such as phones and PDAs rather that specially-made high-cost tokens.
??Fixed PIN is never entered by the user at the keyboard. Thus your system is protected from keyboard sniffers and other spyware and external threats.
??Swivel allows you to implement a more secure home working policy.
??Swivel increases productivity and efficiency for corporate 'road warriors.'
??Because the Swivel system is fully scaleable it can be deployed with B2B and B2C applications. It can be deployed enterprise-wide rather than just for selected user groups.
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