lonely_sysop (Customer) to rsaSFDCadmin (RSA): asked a question.
What's the difference between SecurID Authenticator and SecurID Authenticate app?
Quick info about my environment, two on-prem RSA AM servers, two on-prem web-
tier, and on-prem identity router, and the cloud authentication enabled. Only
recently added the cloud piece, even though it's not an absolute need. We
mostly use RSA to provide MFA to local (on-prem) apps that support it's use.
User info is synced from AD/LDAP to RSA. We assign soft tokens to users
through the security console...the mmc never seemed to work well for us. Users
use the RSA/SecurID Authenticate app (the red one with RSA on it) on their
phones to do the MFA.
With the enabling of the cloud piece, there's now a different app, the SecurID
authenticator (the white one with the cloud), that seems to provide the same
or similar functionality. Does it make sense to set users up with both? Are
they meant to co-exist or is it intended to be one or the other? Our initial
setup allows us to function without out 'Net access as long as users are on
the LAN, which most are. WIth the cloud piece I'm guessing if we lose internet
the cloud piece is useless.
Just wondering what the real difference is between these apps and how others
use them.
tier, and on-prem identity router, and the cloud authentication enabled. Only
recently added the cloud piece, even though it's not an absolute need. We
mostly use RSA to provide MFA to local (on-prem) apps that support it's use.
User info is synced from AD/LDAP to RSA. We assign soft tokens to users
through the security console...the mmc never seemed to work well for us. Users
use the RSA/SecurID Authenticate app (the red one with RSA on it) on their
phones to do the MFA.
With the enabling of the cloud piece, there's now a different app, the SecurID
authenticator (the white one with the cloud), that seems to provide the same
or similar functionality. Does it make sense to set users up with both? Are
they meant to co-exist or is it intended to be one or the other? Our initial
setup allows us to function without out 'Net access as long as users are on
the LAN, which most are. WIth the cloud piece I'm guessing if we lose internet
the cloud piece is useless.
Just wondering what the real difference is between these apps and how others
use them.
The Authenticator app (the newer app) completely supersedes the Authenticate app.
And from Authenticator App 4.2, users can easily migrate credentials from Authenticate App to Authenticator App.. This migration also updates automatically the registration migration on RSA Cloud Authentication Service.