Firefly

1
Firefly

• Secure, Cost-Effective Authentication

2
Agenda

• User Account Provisioning
• Password Management
• Account Provisioning Models
• Business Costs
• Production Support Team Scenario
• Firefly Overview
• Firefly Costs and Benefits

3
User Account Provisioning

• User Account Provisioning Defined

• The creation of user accounts and role assignment
• The management of access privileges as a users
  role changes
• The ability to revoke a users account when their
  relationship with the company ends

4
Password Management

• Password Management Defined

• The enforcement of rules for password creation
  and expiration
• The management of, and performing password resets

5
Account Provisioning Models
Firefly
Generic
User

• One-to-One
• Secure
• Expensive

• One-to-Many
• Security Risks
• More cost effective

• One-to-One
• Secure (2FA)
• Cost effective

(2FA Two-factor authentication)
6
Business Costs

• User Account Provisioning
• Improved IT efficiency 96,000 per year per
  1,000 managed users
• Reduced help desk costs 103 per user per year
• Giga Information Group
• Password Management
• Password reset costs range from 70 (best case)
  to 202 (worst case) for labor alone.
• Gartner

7
Production Support Team Scenario

• Environment
• 250 Network Devices
• 5 Support Staff
• 50 Devices / Employee
• Provisioning Labour Costs
• Creation 39.60 / User
• Password Reset 28.60
• Termination 22.00 / User

8
Production Support Team Scenario

• In 12 Months, support team changes are -
• (A) 2 New starters
• Each new starter responsible for 50 devices
• (B) 2 Departures
• Under the Generic Account Model, all 250
  passwords to be reset.
• Password management policy
• (C) Quarterly password resets

9
Provisioning Scenario Costs
10
Scenario Costs Continued

• FireflyMobile SMS Call Charges
• Average SMS Call Cost is 0.25
• 10,000 logins over 12 months 2,500
• 5 Users 2,000 logins
• 2,000 logins in 250 days 8 logins per day per
  user
• Concurrent logins to the same device, within a
  pre-set time window (i.e. a Firefly session) 1
  Firefly login

11
Scenario Costs Summary

• Provisioning costs are reduced by 97
• The Firefly solution reduces total overall
  operational costs by 91

12
Firefly Overview
FireflyMobile
User enters their Firefly User credentials
User receives one-time password in an SMS text
message
Firefly Authentication Server sends one-time
password in SMS text message to users mobile phone
13
Firefly Overview Continued
FireflyMobile
Application Server / Network Devices delegate to
Firefly Authentication Server
14
Firefly Costs and Benefits

• Reduce Account Provisioning and Password
  Management costs by 97
• The Firefly solution reduces total overall
  operating costs by 91
• Double you security defences with FireflyMobile
  two-factor authentication
• Reduce operational complexities and increase user
  productivity
• A healthier more secure operating environment

15
Cost Benefit Actualisation

• Cost benefits quoted in this presentation are a
  representation of savings based on a typical
  scenario which can be achieved using the Firefly
  SMS product
• Actual cost benefits to your organisation will
  depend on the solutions currently in place
• Dragonfly Technologies can assist in analysing
  potential savings associated with switching to
  Firefly solutions for your security needs

16
Contact

• Dragonfly Technologies Pty Ltd
• Branko Ninkovic - Director
• Tel [phone]
• Mob 61 413 576 183
• Email bninkovic_at_dragonflytechnologies.com.au