[buug] Per user cost for RSA SecurID cards

Bill Honeycutt wfhoney at pacbell.net
Mon Aug 18 20:01:16 PDT 2003


Thanks Patrick, Brian and Bob!

This is exactly the grist that I needed to give the higher-ups!

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 14:32, Patrick Soltani wrote:
> Hi
> 
> >
> >Does anyone have experience with generating one-time passwords 
> >using RSA 
> >SecurID systems?
> >
> I have been running couple of ACE servers 5.x aka SecureID servers for a while now. 
> You can do this only on the GUI version. 
> 
>       qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq Not Available in TTY-Mode qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq    
> x    x                                                                    x     
> x    x    The One-Time Password Generation feature is only available      x     
> x    x                 in graphical user interface mode.                  x     
> x    x                                                                    x     
> x    x qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq 
> 
> >What's the shoot-from-the-hip cost per user to maintain this sort of 
> >authentication infrastructure?
> 
> 
> $5k for the software and support; this may vary for you, we got them couple of years ago.
> $2k for 30 key-fobs + some software token/key-fob
> $4k for two Sun Netra T1 to act as primary and replica for fault tolerance and fail-over.
> Plus the cost of a 6 packs and an extra large Pizza and some patience to get it all working ;-).
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Patrick Soltani.




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