Google Apps with an Arcot Boost

Arcot Systems has joined the Google Enterprise Professional™ program to extend the power of Google across the enterprise, while simultaneously making its A-OK On-Demand authentication service available to Google Apps™ Premier Edition customers.

Google Apps

Google Apps bring simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations. With Google Apps, users can use tools such as Gmail™ email services, Google Calendar™ shared calendaring and Google Docs for documents, spreadsheets and presentations on their own domain. Since it's all hosted by Google, there's no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.

What it means for users

With Arcot A-OK On-Demand, Google Apps customers will have the same anytime, anywhere access — but with the added protection of multi-factor access security. Additionally, Arcot's 100 percent software authentication solution works transparently to users, who will keep their familiar username/password interface.

Arcot A-OK On-Demand prevents criminals from exploiting the vulnerability of password-based authentication. The new service provides an extra layer of online access security, ensuring that only authorized users gain access to confidential, proprietary or regulated data. It offers protection against online identity theft threats, including phishing, keyboard logging, man-in-the-middle and others.

"Arcot A-OK On-Demand is a great service for those Google Apps customers that are looking for stronger user authentication than just a username and password," said Eran Feigenbaum, senior security manager, Google Enterprise.

Arcot keeps the user experience

As with all of its products, Arcot software keeps the simplicity of an easy-to-use and familiar username/password interface, making strong two-factor authentication transparent.

As a 100 percent software solution, Arcot A-OK On-Demand can be implemented in minutes with the standard Google Apps administrator interface, and works on-demand, hosted by Arcot, without the headaches of installing additional software or hardware.

For more information on the Google Enterprise Professional program, please visit www.google.com/enterprise/gep.