HYDERABAD,INDIA - Media OutReach -17 October 2019 - Ensurity Technologies, Hyderabad, India-basedcybersecurity company, is pleased to announce that it has joined the MicrosoftIntelligent Security Association, a group of technology providers who haveintegrated their solutions with Microsoft products to provide customers betterprotection, detection, and response. Ensurity has been working with Microsoftover the last couple of years to integrate its ThinC brand of FIDO/FIDO2certified biometric USB authenticators for passwordless access with MicrosoftAzure Active Directory -- which are now available.  

With the publicpreview release of the FIDO2 security keys support in Azure Active Directory, allAzure Active Directory users can sign in password-free using a FIDO2 securitykey, the Microsoft Authenticator app, or Windows Hello. Additionally, adminusers can use a new Authentication methods blade in the Azure Active Directoryadmin portal that allows admins to assign passwordless credentials using FIDO2security keys and passwordless sign-in with Authenticator to users and groups.

ThinC-AUTH is one of the security keys that works withMicrosoft account and Azure Active Directory to access Microsoft cloud services,including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Azure with onetouch biometric authentication. User biometrics are securely stored within thedevice, while FIDO2 standard protocol is used to further authenticate thedevice to the server apps. ThinC-AUTH can be used for one-touch access tounlock digital resources both on cloud and on-prem.

"I am delightedthat Ensurity is now part of MISA," said Amit Mathur, COOof Ensurity Technologies, "Joining MISA gives Ensurity theopportunity to strengthen its integrations with a wide range ofMicrosoft solutions and address the diverse security needs of customersglobally."

Alex Simons, Corporate VP of Program Management at Microsoft,Microsoft Corp. said, "Passwordlesslogin represents a shift in how customers will securely log in to their Windows10 devices and authenticate to Microsoft Azure Active Directory-basedapplications and services."

You can learn moreabout Microsoft Intelligent Security Association here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/partnerships/intelligent-security-association

About Ensurity Technologies:

Ensurity offers cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions in the areasof secure computing, storage, identity management, applied cryptography,and blockchain. Ensurity's innovative security solutions are seeing globalacceptance due to growing privacy and security concerns. For more informationyou can visit the website - https://www.ensurity.com/Products/ThinC_AUTH/