ASG Key

The ASG Soft Key is a software utility that enables you to establish secure user sessions with Avaya infrastructure security appliances. The ASG Soft Key relies on Two-Factor Authentication – a security process that confirms your identity based on two distinctive factors: something you have (your software token) and something you know (your user PIN).

A simple example of two-factor authentication is an individual’s ATM (Automated Teller Machine) card and his or her PIN (Personal Identification Number). Independently, these items are useless to a prospective identity thief. Only when appropriately used together is identity confirmed and access granted. With the ASG Soft Key, the factor that you know is the PIN you have selected, and the factor that you have is called a token. Tokens are unique and not easily replicable; and access rights can be revoked at any time.

The ASG Soft Key is designed to emulate hardware tokens such as the ASG Key. The ASG Soft Key operates in a Microsoft Windows environment as on mobile platforms such as the Palm™ handheld and BlackBerry™ wireless handhelds.

Authentication tokens are always associated with a user profile on the destination appliance. Within this profile a user key is defined and that key is then seeded into the authentication token. When the user logs into the appliance, the appliance issues a numeric challenge that is entered into the token, and the token generates a numeric response that is entered into the host for successful authentication.