aPersona Empowers IBM Bluemix Applications With Strong Login Protection

RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM has partnered with aPersona to create an incredibly secure, Bluemix-hosted authentication solution. aPersona's frictionless Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication platform (aP-aMFA) provides developers using Bluemix instant login and transaction protection for their applications.

"We are excited about having aPersona in Bluemix," said Sandy Carter, IBM General Manager, Cloud Ecosystems and Developers, at IBM's InterConnect 2015 conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. 

The aP-aMFA platform evaluates hundreds of factors for each transaction and instantly performs a rigorous digital forensic risk evaluation based on user patterns of behavior. Though traditionally this level of security has been cost-prohibitive for applications scaling to millions of users, aPersona puts this level of intelligent assurance within reach of start-ups and enterprises.

aPersona's licensing includes a free version and cost effectively scales for large enterprises at pennies per user. "When we created our solution, we knew licesing had to be highly cost-effective and the user experience had to be completely transparent," said Kelly Sparks, aPersona's CEO.  "Users demand ease of use and companies require greater assurances provided by our behavior learning and deep forensic validation technology. Now, aPersona provides IBM Bluemix developers with a robust security solution to protect all their applications and services."

The need for this depth of protection has been highlighted by the growing list of enterprises suffering security breaches.  As these companies fall victim to increasingly savvy intrusions into application transactions, aPersona sees the opportunity to help enterprises increase levels of user assurance while keeping the user experience seamless. 

As cloud usage grows, so do the potential risks. When migrating to public-facing clouds, companies can expand efficiency through access, but that also brings greater threats of intrusion by unauthorized parties. These threats are exactly what the aPersona solution mitigates for Bluemix users. This allows them to expand their developers' access to an array of services and frameworks, without risk to their proprietary information. With over 75% of data breaches resulting from the exploitation of weak or stolen credentials, aPersona allows developers to close this door.

"Our job is to help make the public facing cloud environments more secure and easy to access at the same time," said Sparks.

About aPersona, Inc.

For more details on aPersona, click here http://www.apersona.com

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