OpenText Advanced Authentication (NetIQ)
Enable passwordless and multifactor authentication
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Overview
Organizations look to reduce the number of authentication silos across their infrastructure because as the number of them increase, so does administration overhead. These silos also introduce policy incongruencies, a source of vulnerabilities.
OpenText™ Advanced Authentication (NetIQ) is a standards-based authentication framework that’s easy to configure and maintain and protects your entire organization. Modernize to passwordless or multifactor authentication through a centralized solution, eliminating siloes while driving greater security and manageability.
Why OpenText Advanced Authentication?
OpenText Advanced Authentication is a standards-based authentication framework designed to eliminate siloes. As the central integration point, it lets you modernize to passwordless or multifactor authentication for greater security and manageability.
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supported methods
With support for diverse authentication types, OpenText Advanced Authentication allows you to offer the right method for your users. - Five
integration interfaces
OpenText Advanced Authentication offers multiple interfaces to serve as a single integration point for all systems and applications. - One
authentication framework
Available as both a cloud-based service and an on-prem solution, the framework scales to however large or distributed your environment is.
We feel ready for the future with our solution and appreciate that [OpenText] took the time to understand our requirements, both now and in the future, and worked with us to find the best and most cost-effective solution for us.
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Use cases
Organizations use OpenText Advanced Authentication to consolidate their authentication policies down to a single point of administration. The framework’s generous set of integration points reduce user friction while raising security.
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Use passwordless or multifactor authentication to help protect against the most common outsider threat—credential-based phishing.
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Manage your entire environment with a single authentication framework for a consistent user experience across all managed services.
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Drive down costs with a standards-based framework free from expensive proprietary devices, high enrollment fees, or siloed administration.
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Consolidate all authentication into a single, consistent set of security policies across the entire enterprise that’s managed through a central system.
Key features
OpenText Advanced Authentication eliminates uneven authentication policies to ensure consistent security, and it reduces user friction through passwordless authentication. By decreasing administrative overhead, it frees IT staff for higher priority tasks.
Standards-based authentication framework
Consolidates your authentication silos to reduce administrative costs and eliminate uneven or out-of-date policies that create vulnerabilities.
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
Extends access to more authentication methods and application integrations without having to modify the Windows based applications that make ADFS calls.
Enrollment portal
Gives users a way to quickly enroll all the available methods you’ve onboarded onto the framework.
Adaptive authentication
Provides metrics necessary to establish users’ context and adapt authentication to match the level of measured risk.
Geo-fencing
Adapts authentication policies based on a user’s specific location, such as a building or campus.
Client options for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Gives users access to more authentication methods and application integrations.
How to buy
OpenText Advanced Authentication
Provides client based authentication methods.
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Provides adaptive authentication.
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Integrations
OpenText Advanced Authentication’s framework takes a standards-based approach, avoiding proprietary integrations where possible while providing broad support for the applications, services and platforms that you use.
FIDO U2F
PKCS7
PKCS11
FIPS Inside
OATH
NFC
HSPD-12
OAuth2
RADIUS
Kerberos Network Authentication
Windows compatible 
Mac OS
Linux
Active Directory Federation Services 
Google Auth
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Training
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OpenText Advanced Authentication resources
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Passwordless authentication enables users to log in without a traditional password, using biometrics, device PINs, security keys, or passkeys instead. OpenText Advanced Authentication supports passwordless authentication, including single-factor use cases.
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Customers use its passwordless features to protect against phishing and credential theft. It also supports FIDO2 methods to secure access to sensitive applications and services.
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Many customers consolidate isolated strong authentication systems into a unified framework integrated with other identity and access management services.
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Authentication chaining is a security method where multiple authentication steps are performed sequentially to verify a user's identity. It provides a flexible, layered approach to access security in platforms like OpenText Advanced Authentication.
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When integrated with OpenText Access Manager, authentication chaining can use risk scores to trigger specific authentication types. This allows administrators to align authentication strength with risk levels.
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OpenText Access Manager can calculate risk scores before authentication and reassess them during sessions. This enables dynamic responses to changing risk levels.
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Combining single sign-on (via OpenText SecureLogin) with passwordless authentication reduces friction. OpenText SecureLogin also supports kiosk mode, allowing seamless transitions between workstations.
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OpenText Self Service Password Reset provides a secure portal for automated authentication reset and recovery, helping reduce helpdesk calls while maintaining security.
The state of passwordless authentication
Organizations are increasingly seeing value using passwordless authentication.
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Scaling passwordless authentication
Moving your authentication silos to an integrated infrastructure.
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Driving authentication with risk analysis
Create a better security business plan with a more concrete analysis of risk.
Read the blogTired of performing manual identity management true-ups
View the infographicWhat is multi-factor authentication?
Learn moreWhat is single sign-on?
Learn moreWhat is identity and access management?
Learn moreWhat Is identity governance and administration?
Learn moreWhat is passwordless authentication?
Learn moreRaising access security without driving users crazy
Watch the webinarTired of performing manual identity management true-ups
View the infographicWhat is multi-factor authentication?
Learn moreWhat is single sign-on?
Learn moreWhat is identity and access management?
Learn moreWhat Is identity governance and administration?
Learn moreWhat is passwordless authentication?
Learn moreRaising access security without driving users crazy
Watch the webinar
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