Some times the new guys do well..

For a couple of years now i have been a great fan of the company and product SMS PASSCODE. A company based in Denmark delivering a strong session-based 2-factor authentication solution based on SMS. SMS PASSCODE has gone through a cool development through the last couple of years, and the penetration in the Danish market has been extreme. SMS PASSCODE has been widely adopted and a lot of customers are now using this as a means to save money on the administration of 2-factor authentication. Denmark has been widely using tokens as the means of 2-factor authentication, both RSA and Safeword products but the last couple of years the growth has been focused on the SMS based solution that SMS PASSCODE provides.

The reasons for this trend is tightly connected with the fact that the solution is session-based so it eliminates both pharming and phishing attacks which are becoming more and more common. And maybe as the most important change it provides a lot of customers with a solutions which is way easier to administrate, both when it comes to internal users as there is no distributions of a physical device, but also in cases of external consultants where many have experienced that tokens disappear and if you look away from the security aspect it is usually quite a bit of money that goes into these tokens, which are often lost. With SMS PASSCODE, customers are able to just remove the external consultant from and AD-group and the “2-factor access” is revoked. In case of general consultant users changing personality it is just a case of changing the phone number in your active directory.

Anyway…. What i wanted to do with this post was to congratulate SMS PASSCODE on making it to the Red Herring list of “Top 100 most promising Tech Companies” in Europe. I think it is awesome that the guys have been able to spread the technology and that it is now being even more widely adopted. Way to go guys. You can check out the list here: http://www.herringevents.com/europe09/redherring100.html

If you want to try out SMS PASSCODE you can easily do it at their demo site here: https://demo.smspasscode.com/Public/Home.aspx

If you want to know more about SMS PASSCODE have a look here or here.

As i visited SMS PASSCODE yesterday i also had the chance to dig into the upcoming version, and trust me its going to be great, i will post a review when the material is released

Rene Vester