Measures reported by RSAAuthenticateTest

An RSA Authentication Manager appliance is a multi-factor authentication solution that centrally administers user profiles and authentication methods as well as applications and agents across multiple physical sites. The multifactor authentication provides stronger protection by requiring two or more unique factors to authenticate the user's identity. Using the multifactor authentication, the appliance verifies security pins, security tokens and the user’s identity for servicing authentication requests. Besides, the appliance centrally manages authentication policies for an enterprise's end users. This way, the appliance guarantees that only authorized users are granted permission to access the enterprise's network.

If the appliance is unable to perform authentications owing to an overload condition or network malfunction, then, the authentication failure increases drastically. These failed authentications may stall operations of the appliance and may allow unauthorized users to access critical data on the enterprise's network. Sometimes, valid users may also be denied access. This in turn, compromises security of the enterprise's network, leads to data loss and opens a way for malicious attacks on the enterprise's network. To avert such issues, administrators should continuously track the authentications performed by the appliance, and capture abnormalities before users notice anything amiss. The RSA Authentications test helps the administrators in this regard!

This test accurately pinpoints the total number of authentications performed by the appliance, and the number of authentications that are performed successfully and are failed. In addition, this test also reports the number of new pin authentications and security token authentications that are performed by the appliance.

The measures made by this test are as follows: