Thales Introduces New FIDO Key Lifecycle Management Solution to Enable Secure Authentication at Scale
12 Février 2025 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- New solution allows Enterprises to accelerate and secure
passwordless implementation by managing FIDO security passkeys at
scale simply and efficiently
- Provides full control of the entire FIDO key lifecycle to IT
and facilitates accelerated FIDO adoption
Thales, the leading global technology and security provider,
today announced the launch of OneWelcome FIDO Key Lifecycle
Management, a new solution to help large organizations successfully
deploy and manage FIDO security passkeys at scale. This
announcement reflects Thales’s commitment to provide its customers
with a seamless and secure passwordless journey.
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OneWelcome FIDO Key Lifecycle Management combines an
interoperable management platform with Thales hardware FIDO
security keys (passkeys) specifically designed by Thales for use in
large organizations. The solution helps CISOs accelerate and secure
their passwordless journey by managing FIDO security keys at scale,
in a simple and efficient way, throughout their lifecycle. In
addition, CISOs benefit from the ultimate Thales expertise in cyber
security and in complex projects.
Danny de Vreeze, Vice President, Identity & Access
Management at Thales, said: “Authentication is at the heart of
securing identities and we are committed to supporting
organizations securely transition to passwordless authentication.
This solution eliminates the barriers to smooth adoption and
enables IT teams to easily manage FIDO security keys beyond just
the enrollment. The OneWelcome FIDO Key Lifecycle Management
solution is a crucial part of our Passwordless 360° approach that
encourages organizations to deploy passwordless at scale and reap
its strategic benefits.”
FIDO security keys are the gold standard for protecting the
enterprise from phishing attacks, but cumbersome self-registration
and lifecycle management processes often lead to user frustration,
IT overheads and delayed passwordless authentication
deployment.
Thanks to unique capabilities, this new solution, allows IT
teams to quickly preregister keys and manage them easily and
securely from enrollment to revocation. By relieving end users from
these processes, the OneWelcome FIDO Key Lifecycle Management
solution improves end-user productivity, accelerates FIDO
authentication deployment at scale and secures the entire FIDO key
lifecycle.
Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director and CEO at The FIDO
Alliance, said: “The FIDO Alliance’s mission is to reduce the
world’s reliance on passwords with simpler, stronger
authentication. As an active board member of The FIDO Alliance,
Thales underscores that mission by supporting a wider deployment of
FIDO standards via its device-bound passkey Management Solution –
with the added bonus of full key lifecycle management.”
The interoperable management platform is integrated via FIDO2
provisioning API’s to Microsoft Entra ID which enables
organizations to pre-register Thales FIDO keys on behalf of their
end users.
Thanks to this integration, Enterprises adopting Microsoft 365
can provide secure and seamless authentication to their users from
day one. Thales confirms its position as an Identity Trailblazer
won at the 2024 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards in recognition
of its innovative IAM solutions.
Natee Pretikul, Principal Product Management Lead at Microsoft
Security, said: “With FIDO2 provisioning APIs and our longstanding
collaboration with Thales, we are empowering organizations to
deploy phishing-resistant authentication at scale. By
pre-registering end users for a passkey (FIDO2) credential, we
enable them to use phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication
methods more quickly.”
About Thales
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global
leader in advanced technologies specialized in three business
domains: Defence & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber
& Digital.
It develops products and solutions that
help make the world safer, greener and more inclusive. The Group
invests close to €4 billion a year in Research & Development,
particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity,
quantum technologies, cloud technologies and 6G. Thales has close
to 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2023, the Group generated
sales of €18.4 billion.
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