myOneLogin Protects Google Apps Access at St. Michael's RC School

LOS GATOS, Calif., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- TriCipher, a leading provider of Internet identity services, announced today that St. Michael's RC School in the UK has standardized on myOneLogin Secure Single Sign-On to provide strong authentication to its Google Apps accounts for students and staff. myOneLogin Secure Single Sign-on adds strong authentication to Google Apps logins, offering better access security than basic passwords. Delivered as an on-demand service, myOneLogin Secure Single Sign-On is quick to deploy and easy to maintain.

"I feel confident that the information stored in Google Apps is secure, as Google adheres to the EU's Safe Harbour framework. But I worried about access to confidential information being protected only by a single username and password," said Damien Kelly, Head of E-Learning at St. Michael's. "myOneLogin adds strong authentication to Google Apps without a lot of configuration – it's easy even for our students to use."

As a specialist school for science and applied learning, St. Michael's explores and applies means for using emerging technologies in support of teaching and learning. The school has been successfully using Google Apps for both teachers and its students, ages 11-16. Concerns about protecting access to confidential student information convinced St. Michaels to adopt myOneLogin Secure Single Sign-on for all Google Apps usage. Key factors in choosing myOneLogin included the following:

• Tight, SAML-based integration with Google Apps Education Edition requires that students and staff access accounts using myOneLogin's strong authentication.
• SaaS-based delivery model complements Google Apps, delivering an easy, rapid deployment and low total cost.
• With myOneLogin's flexible strong authentication technologies, St. Michael's can use different authentication methods for students than staff.
• Integration with VeriSign VIP Access for Mobile lets teachers and staff use smart phones to generate one-time passwords for strong authentication.

"As schools and educational institutions continue to adopt to on-demand applications like Google Apps, they have to be sure to safeguard access to student information," said Kerry Loftus, Vice President of User Authentication at VeriSign. "We are pleased to work with TriCipher to extend the use of VeriSign Identity Protection technology for teachers and staff handling confidential data."

"St. Michael's is pioneering the use of Google Apps in education, exploring the ways that its collaboration capabilities support the learning experience," said Jon Brody, VP Marketing at TriCipher. "myOneLogin supports their success by providing strong authentication to Google Apps that is easy enough for school students to use."  

For more information on myOneLogin Identity Services, visit www.myOneLogin.com.

About TriCipher

TriCipher, Inc. provides Internet identity services to protect web and enterprise portals, the people that use them and the business processes that flow through them against fraud and identity theft. TriCipher myOneLogin™ is the first secure, on-demand offering that delivers strong authentication, single sign-on (SSO) and federation capabilities for web applications in a single solution. The TriCipher Armored Credential System™ (TACS) is a unified authentication system that enables companies to deploy and manage multiple types of credentials from a single infrastructure. Through this flexible "Authentication Ladder," TriCipher protects customer investment by adjusting authentication strength to defeat new threats and to meet regulatory changes without the need to implement a new infrastructure. Founded in 2000, TriCipher is headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif. The company is funded by ArrowPath Venture Capital, EPIC Ventures, Intel Capital, RBC Technology Ventures, and Trident Capital.

SOURCE TriCipher, Inc.