Comparison
- Simple and easy
- Convenient for end-users and administrators
- Cost saving
- Enhanced security
- No logistical overheads
- No end user hardware (tokens/fobs)
- A real solution to the problem of universal personal authentication
FireID offers several advantages over conventional one-time-password solutions.
No expensive hardware tokens
Compared to hardware token solutions, which require each end-user to carry a physical token device, FireID reduces costs considerably, as well as offering an unprecedented level of convenience.
Rather than requiring expensive and inconvenient hardware tokens, FireID makes use of a hardware platform that users already carry on them at all times - mobile phones. This further reduces the logistical requirement in that it is not necessary to deliver devices to each end-user. FireID additionally supports any number of tokens within one installation of the FireID application, allowing a user the ability to authenticate to multiple resources from one device.
Faster and more secure
FireID is significantly more secure than text based solutions, as well as being faster, more reliable and more convenient, providing the solution at a fixed cost, rather than an unknown variable based on the quantity of text messages generated.
