Softex Announces OmniDefend, Delivering Cloud-Based Customer Verification and Identity Management to the Banking and Financial Services Industries

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Softex Inc

Jan 31, 2018, 08:00 ET

AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB) January 31, 2018 -- Softex Inc., an established market leader in Enterprise Single Sign-On, Identity and Access Management and Data Protection Solutions, today announced OmniDefend and its initial product implementation, OmniDefend Customer Verification System (CVS), at the IBEX tradeshow in Mumbai, India, one of the largest tradeshows for the Fintech industry. Softex will be showcasing and demonstrating its new OmniDefend solution at booth D408 at IBEX from February 1-3 at MMRDA Grounds, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, India.

With OmniDefend CVS, banks and financial institutions will be able to address many of the cybersecurity issues facing the BFSI Sector today; data breeches and identity fraud. OmniDefend CVS will enable banks to provide additional value to their customers by enhancing and simplifying the customer verification process. Customers will be able to quickly and easily sign in to their accounts with their fingerprint, eliminating the need to provide identification or account information to carry out banking transactions. In addition, employees and tellers will be able to sign in to their accounts and banking applications without the need to remember passwords, reducing the number of password-related support issues.

OmniDefend Overview

  • Identity as a Service (IaaS) that includes strong authentication and authorization.
  • A modular architecture that can be extended to apply IaaS features to a specific vertical market.
  • Can be hosted in a public cloud, private on-premise server, or in a semi-private cloud.
  • Multiple SDKs available to allow API level integration into a variety of platforms.
  • Modern, standards-based architecture supporting OpenID Connect, OAuth2.0, SCIM 2.0, FIDO 2.0, etc.
  • Multi-tenant server support to enable partners, resellers, VARs an MSPs to host IaaS for different clients.
  • Supports biometric devices such as fingerprint readers, signature recognition pads and palm vein scanners.
  • Architected to support other technologies such as FIDO, face and voice as well as non-biometric modalities.
  • Supports authentication via any OAuth2.0 compatible service, such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, etc.

OmniDefend CVS

OmniDefend CVS is Softex's first implementation of the OmniDefend architecture designed for the banking industry, providing extended APIs and reporting to allow financial institutions to easily integrate employee login via strong authentication with OmniDefend through its Core Banking Systems (CBS) operator screens. OmniDefend CVS APIs can be integrated into any financial application (e.g. ATM machines, physical access to safe deposit lockers, customer facing websites, etc.) The Core Banking system can make use of OmniDefend CVS APIs for strong authentication of transactions requiring employee approval and extensive reporting capabilities.

Apurva Bhansali, CEO of Softex commented: “Softex is pleased to announce the release of OmniDefend and to extend its Identity Management Solutions to the cloud. With over 25 years of providing enterprise-class security solutions and biometric Single Sign-on to enterprise and SMB customers, Softex is able to leverage our expertise and help customers confidently manage their employee and customer identities in the cloud backed by the safety and security of OmniDefend.”

Upcoming releases of OmniDefend will include support for its award-winning enterprise Single Sign-on and password management as well as support for more standards such as FIDO. UIs and APIs will be extended and tailored for given vertical markets or customer applications.

Softex is currently engaged in its first deployment of OmniDefend with a large commercial bank in Africa serving over 3 million customers, enabling the bank to perform credit checks as well as authenticate customers through the use of biometric technologies such as fingerprint or signature authentication.

For more information on OmniDefend, visit http://www.omnidefend.com.
About Softex
Founded in 1992, Softex, http://www.softexinc.com, is a market leader and provider of security-focused software solutions including Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO), Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Data Protection of Self-Encrypting Drives. Softex offers both on-premise and cloud-based security solutions to HealthCare, Financial, Corporate, Government and OEM markets with a focus on strong user authentication and helping its customers meet industry compliance. With over 100M licenses shipped, Softex serves many of the top tier companies, such as Dell, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, SanDisk, Kensington, Synaptics and Accenture.

Tom Aebli, Softex Inc, http://www.softexinc.com, +1 (512) 452-8836 Ext: 231, [email protected]