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TWST: Could you give us an introduction to your products and services?
Mr. Nugent: Applied Identity builds identity-based access control systems. Our
solutions encompasses a gateway and a management application called Policy Cab.
This solution helps enterprises - namely large enterprises - lower their risk
profile as it relates to protecting corporate information assets, and it also
helps to dramatically decrease the operational complexities and cost of managing
access control. TWST: Can you give us an example of what your solutions deliver?
Mr. Nugent: We have several clients that are using the solutions for managing
third party access to their corporate networks. We have a few clients that all
have some amount of offshore development - in these particular cases, third
party development in India. They must open up network access to allow these
contracted developers to upload binaries and other development transmissions to
the corporate network. The challenge that they face is that they have very
little ability to distinguish between those third parties and their own
employees once these people connect to their network, and that obviously
introduces a pretty significant risk to the operation. So these companies are
looking for a way to distinguish the access rights of these offshore developers
versus regular employees.
In theory, you'd want your regular employees to be able to access and see more
things on the network than you would a third party. Some in the industry refer
to this as "guest worker access", and there are a lot of guest worker access
programs out there. Many enterprises have projects afoot right now to secure
conference rooms, open cubicles and offices. So when you've got a guest -
whether it's a contractor, a supplier, a partner or a customer - when they log
in, they can get access to the network so that they can get basic services like
Internet access, for example, but nothing too much beyond that because again, it
raises the risk profile.
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