Authentication Manager

Replace passwords with fast, secure strong authentication: from smart cards and RFID to biometrics, OTP, and QR codes

Overview

Passwordless authentication for shared workforces

Eviden Authentication Manager is the multi-factor authentication engine at the heart of EAM. It manages authentication devices and policies across Windows workstations: enabling organisations to replace passwords entirely with smart cards, RFID badges, biometrics, OTP tokens, QR codes, or Windows Hello. Purpose-built for environments where users share workstations or move between terminals, such as hospitals, factories, retail, and public administration.

Key features

What sets Authentication Manager apart

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Multi-device MFA support

Smart cards, RFID badges, biometrics (fingerprint, iris, Nymi wristband), OTP, QR code (QREntry), and passwordless Windows Hello.

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Shared workstation management

Secure autologon, multi-user desktop sessions, and roaming user profiles: one terminal, many users, zero password sharing.

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QREntry: smartphone QR authentication

Users authenticate on a Windows workstation by scanning a QR code with their smartphone: no badge, no token required.

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Centralised device management

Enrol, manage, and revoke authentication devices from a single administration console across the entire estate.

Policy engine

Policy engine

Define authentication rules per application, per user group, per location: enforce the right method at the right time.

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Audit trail

Complete log of every authentication event: who, when, where, and how: for compliance and forensic investigation.

Benefits

Secured access to your workstations and servers in any situation

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Eliminate password risk

Replace the weakest link in your security chain: the password: with hardware-backed strong authentication.

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Speed up clinical and frontline workflows

Badge tap or QR scan takes under a second: clinicians and frontline workers log in faster than they ever did with passwords.

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Support any hardware

Works with leading smart card, RFID, biometric, and OTP vendors: no proprietary hardware lock-in.

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Reduce hidden costs

Fewer password resets, fewer helpdesk calls, fewer security incidents: strong authentication pays for itself.

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Prove compliance

Full audit trail satisfies HIPAA, GDPR, NIS2, and 21 CFR Part 11 requirements.

Why Eviden

Why choose Authentication Manager

Healthcare reference

Standard authentication platform in European hospitals: CHU Nantes, CHUV, GHT, and multiple NHS trusts all rely on Authentication Manager for clinical workstation security.

Broad device ecosystem

Tested and certified with leading RFID, smart card, biometric, and OTP vendors: choose the hardware that fits your environment.

Integrated with EAM and SSO

Authentication Manager works seamlessly within EAM: one authentication event unlocks all SSO-enrolled applications.

QREntry innovation

Unique QR code authentication via smartphone: no badge reader required, ideal for environments where hardware deployment is impractical.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Authentication Manager supports leading RFID standards including HID, MIFARE, and others: consult the product team for your specific badge technology.

Yes: QREntry enables smartphone-based QR code authentication, requiring no badge reader hardware.

Authentication Manager supports multi-user desktop sessions where each user authenticates with their own badge or device, and sessions are isolated.

Yes: a full audit trail is maintained for every login, logout, and failed authentication event.

Authentication Manager can operate independently for workstation login, but its full value is realised as part of the EAM platform with SSO.

Case Study

Fast, secure clinical login: badge in, patient records open

CHUV: Lausanne University Hospital

Strong authentication across shared clinical workstations at a major Swiss university hospital.

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Solution

Eviden Authentication Manager

Business-aware multi-factor authentication management for the whole organization
Secure access to your PCs and servers in any situation. Cover all authentication scenarios, whether a user accesses one or several PCs, or several users share one PC. Passwords are a weak point in many authentication policies. Shared or simple Windows passwords are a risk of intrusion, and make it almost impossible to precisely audit Windows account usage. Strong multi-factor authentication solves these issues by replacing passwords with devices or biometrics. But in the field, strong authentication faces operational constraints. To deploy and manage thousands of users, you must cover all use cases -or risk hindering employees in their daily tasks.

Dedicated business features
With Eviden Authentication Manager, sales or branch office employees share a PC and access their own environment in a few seconds without having to log on and off to Windows.
Doctors keep their own Windows session when roaming the hospital premises. From one PC, front desk traders and control room technicians can open, lock, unlock, or close a set of PCs using their multi-factor authentication.
An employee can delegate access to their locked sessions permanently or temporarily (optionally with a read only screen) for one or several PCs.

Simplify multi-factor authentication deployment
Eviden Authentication Manager simplifies the deployment and day-to-day management of strong authentication:
• Central management of access policy
• Group-based authentication profiles
• Integrated card administration (issuance, inventory, black list...)
• Centralized audit of all access attempts to PCs.

Eviden Authentication Manager factsheet

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