RSA Envisions Centralized Consumer Authentication Service

RSA Security has announced the RSA Authentication Service, a consumer-focused offering that sets up RSA as the central authenticator between consumers (suitably equipped with RSA hardware or software tokens) and their online services.

Until now, users and businesses have been forced to work with a variety of disparate authentication methods of varying strength – resulting in confusion, a lack of adoption, and inadequate levels of security that have left consumers vulnerable to identity theft and other scams. RSA Security believes that, by enabling the use of a single credential that is available in a wide range of form-factors and accepted at a potentially unlimited number of sites, many existing problems can be removed.