RSA Smart Cards 5200

Introduction: RSA Smart Cards 5200

Companies today face a growing security challenge that continues to place increased pressure on operations. Resources as diverse as physical facilities, desktops, networks, and applications need to be protected in a way consistent with existing business practices.

RSA® Smart Cards help address this challenge by providing an all-in-one device for secure enterprise access. Employees use a single card to get into their building, log on to their PCs, and access applications with RSA® Sign-On Manager. And when users lock their card or even lose it, they can gain emergency access to their credentials through RSA Security’s innovative IntelliAccessTM technology.

Features and Benefits

Corporate employees must make use of a large and diverse set of credentials to access various resources within the enterprise, placing a real burden on the end user. RSA Smart Cards provide a single, secure, container for a wide range of security applications. RSA Smart Cards combine all the familiarity of a typical ID badge, such as employee photo, company logo, and building access, with the flexibility of a digital identity store for Microsoft® Windows® credentials, enterprise single sign-on, digital certificates and keys, biometric templates, and of course RSA SecurID® one-time password authentication.

Smart cards from RSA Security enable multi-factor authentication to virtually any enterprise resource. Users, armed with RSA Sign-On Manager, can replace all their usernames, passwords, and devices with just one card and one PIN.

RSA Smart Cards help lower the cost of deploying, administering, and supporting multi-factor authentication by consolidating multiple types of access applications into one end-user device. These savings are augmented when managing those devices with RSA Sign-On Manager, which not only provides single sign-on to virtually all of your enterprise applications, but also enables self-service emergency access in the event that a user’s card is lost or their PIN forgotten.

In addition, RSA Smart Cards and associated client software can be managed centrally over the web, allowing administrators to automate many end-user tasks such as applet deployment, backup/recovery of credentials, and security policy management. Unlike traditional smart card products, RSA Smart Cards and RSA Sign-On Manager have been built to handle the needs of the large-scale organization.

RSA Security has partnered with leading physical access technology vendors to provide a single card-based platform for integrated logical and physical access. RSA Smart Cards can be deployed throughout the organization just as you would any other ID badge, without requiring process changes. Then, on your schedule, those cards can be activated in the field to implement logical access and enterprise single sign-on with RSA Sign-On Manager. This path helps ease the transition to a smart-card user population while taking full advantage of all the benefits of such an infrastructure.

RSA Smart Cards will continue to serve as a powerful platform for your security initiatives as your smart card projects grow over time. Built on the industry-leading Java Card operating system and incorporating open standards like the GlobalPlatform specification, your RSA Smart Card can run a wide variety of custom and third-party applets. These applets are centrally deployed to your user community through the RSA Sign-On Manager console in accordance with your defined policy settings.

• Extend RSA Sign-On Manager’s single sign-on capabilities to applications that require certificate authentication, such as an SSL connection to a web server host application.
• Increase the integrity of documents and communication by digitally signing documents and sending encrypted email.
• Help meet compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley in the United States and the European Union’s Digital Signature Directive.

Technical Specifications

• IntelliAccessTM technology for secure emergency access
• Storage of the RSA Sign-On Manager SSO key
• Strong authentication using up to 3 stored Microsoft® Windows® logon credentials
• Digital certificate support: on-board generation and storage of up to 7 digital certificates (RSA-1024) and private keys
• Storage of up to 3 biometric templates
• Storage of up to 5 RSA SecurID® Software Token seed records
• Management of the PIN and PIN unlock key
• Available space for custom applets, security keys, and user data

• Extended crypto support: DES, 3DES, RSA 1024-bit, SHA-1
• Encryption and digital signature support
• State-of-the-art, built-in security features
• Highly secured Sun® Java™ Virtual Machine
• Powerful applet firewalling

• ISO 7816
• Java Card 2.1.1
• GlobalPlatform 2.0.1

• 64KB EEPROM
• 8-bit CPU microcontroller
• Bi-protocol support: T=0 and T=1
• Temperature range of -25°C to +75°C
• Single power supply: 2.7V to 5.5V
• Clock frequency 1 to 7.5 MHz
• EEPROM endurance: 500,000 write/erase cycles
• Data retention: 10 years (ambient temperature)
• Exception Sensors for voltage, frequency and temperature

• White PVC tamper-resistant card body for badge printing, barcodes
• Optional magnetic stripe
• HID® and MIFARE® options available for proximity-based applications

RSA Smart Card 5200

A secure portable standard Java-card storage container for user’s digital credentials. Used with RSA SecurID Sign-On Manager it supports strong authentication on to the PC and into a user’s network and application environment. They can also be used for employee badges and physical building access.

Smart Card Readers

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Smart card readers tested with our smart cards and software.