MCLEAN, Va., March 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- WidePoint
Corporation (NYSE Mkt: WYY) a leading provider of Managed Mobility
Services (MMS) specializing in Cybersecurity and Telecommunications
Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions, announced today that
WidePoint has released two new mobile applications that enable the
secure creation, delivery, and installation of digital certificates
to Android-based mobile devices. The apps, WidePoint Person‑ID
and WidePoint Derived‑ID, both part of the WidePoint
Certificate-on-Device™ solution, make it easy for end-users without
specialized knowledge or training to install and use digital
certificates on their mobile devices.
The need for a strong authentication solution on mobile devices
is significant and growing. Organizations are challenged with the
cost and complexity of managing secure mobile computing, seeking
solutions that enable their workers to be productive anywhere, any
time, on today's advanced mobile devices. WidePoint
Certificate-on-Device, with its new mobile delivery solution,
provides an elegant, cost-effective, and user-friendly solution. It
lets organizations give their employees the freedom to use their
mobile devices to securely access the same resources they can
currently access from their corporate computers.
The solution employs mobile apps that can be pushed to employee
mobile devices using the organization's existing mobile device
management (MDM) portal or directly installed by users. The issuing
process incorporates a series of challenge authentications and
approvals to assure that the requesting party has possession of the
mobile device during the entire certificate issuance process. And
unlike other solutions, private/public keys are generated on the
device in the native OS store or in a hardware security module,
providing maximum protection of the private keys at the time they
are generated.
This WidePoint solution has wide applicability. For
organizations that utilize a smart card-based ID system, WidePoint
Derived-ID enables them to leverage their prior IT investment by
trusting their internal vetting process, making it easy to deploy a
trusted digital credential on mobile devices over the air,
or locally. Organizations without an existing smart card ID system
can leverage WidePoint Person-ID, which provides a process to
install a digital credential directly on the mobile device,
eliminating the need to invest in a smart card system, which
requires substantial operational and maintenance overhead.
These two new solutions expand WidePoint's current
Certificate-on-Device offerings to cover the majority of mobile
operating systems used in businesses today (including Apple iOS),
providing the market with a comprehensive security solution for
their diverse mobile assets. In addition, it provides a compliant
mobile solution for organizations with mandatory regulatory
compliance needs related to accessing, storing, and transmitting
data, such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HSPD-12.
Denise Finnance, WidePoint's
chief security officer, said, "Certificate-on-Device eliminates the
weakness of shared secrets such as user names and passwords, which
are currently the primary attack vector being used today to breach
organizations. The new apps enable the generation of private/public
keys directly on the device and within the native OS store, making
the digital certificates automatically available for use by
applications while being protected in secure containers, including
Samsung KNOX, microSDs, and secure embedded elements."
Steve L. Komar, chief executive
officer & chairman of WidePoint Corporation, added, "We have
consciously positioned our offerings to address the multiple and
varied needs of target markets, including ones with high regulatory
compliance needs like healthcare, financial services, and
government. Our ability to securely and cost-effectively deliver
high-assurance digital certificates gives organizations a solution
to address authentication across all of their endpoints, including
the various multiple consumer devices that employees utilize
today."
Learn more about WidePoint Certificate-on-Device and its new
apps on our website or by calling WidePoint at 877-919-5943.
About WidePoint
WidePoint (NYSE Mkt: WYY) is a leading provider of secure,
cloud-delivered, enterprise-wide information technology-based
solutions that can enable enterprises and agencies to deploy fully
compliant IT services in accordance with government-mandated
regulations and advanced system requirements. WidePoint has several
major government and commercial contracts. For more information,
visit www.widepoint.com.
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