San Diego, CALIF. – July 15, 2010 Anakam announces that it has received US Patent Number 7,676,834 for the company’s capability to verify if a user name and password is associated with a user’s computer and, if not confirmed, require a strong authentication challenge prior to granting access to a Web application.  This is the foundation of a series of patents pending around the company’s flagship technology platform Anakam.TFA® Two-Factor Authentication and the Anakam Identity Suite®.  This patented approach allows Anakam to implement a progressive authentication policy across an enterprise based on the role of a user and the level of assurance the enterprise wants to establish with individuals accessing its online systems.

Founder and CEO of Anakam, Allan Camaisa, submitted this patent as one of several that cover the best-in-industry authentication and identity management tools offered by Anakam.  “The award of the patent to Anakam is an important milestone as it confirms what we have already demonstrated through our success in sales,” said Mr. Camaisa.  “Anakam is truly unique in our offerings.  Whether it’s a consumer logging into their bank account or a doctor logging in to an electronic health record system to prescribe medication, Anakam protects the system from access by fraudulent users.  We mitigate risk and enable trusted access, which is paramount in business today, especially in the sectors of banking, finance, healthcare and government.  Anakam has been visionary in the authentication market and this patent validates our leadership in the industry.”

Anakam helps to mitigate organizational risk and defend against unauthorized access, system breaches, data loss and fraud by leveraging the power of Anakam’s fully auditable platform.  Anakam’s multi-factor authentication and identity verification solutions help organizations to determine whether a user is who they claim to be prior to granting access to web portals, customer databases, internal systems and networks.  Integrating with all major identity and access management software, the Anakam Identity Suite seamlessly deploys across an enterprise within a matter of days instead of weeks or months.  Anakam enterprise customers also choose to deploy the patented software as part of the cloud-based identity and identity-as-a-service solutions. 

About Anakam:

Anakam® is a global leader in multi-factor authentication, identity proofing and user verification technologies.  The Anakam Identity Suite® enables cost-effective strong authentication and identity management across an entire enterprise – customers, business partners, and employees.  With tens of millions of end users, and software that deploys inside the enterprise or in the cloud, the Anakam Identity Suite is unique in the industry, providing progressive multi-channel capabilities that enable secure, trusted eBusiness to very large user-communities in a single platform.  The suite includes two-factor authentication, remote identity proofing and verification, professional credentialing, and secure collaboration. For more information, please visit www.anakam.com.