Diamelle Technologies which provides a comprehensive identity and access management enterprise solution, has announced the release of a low cost Authentication server with two factor authentication, aimed at the SMB market and high volume online applications.

Authentication with more than one factor is considered as strong authentication which is considerably more difficult to compromise as compared with single factor authentication. Two factor authentication, using one time passwords (OTP), requires the user to enter something they know, which is usually a PIN, and something they have; a physical device such as a token, smart cards with micro-processors, or biometrics such as finger print scanners.

The Diamelle solution uses something that every online consumer already has: a PC, a PDA, or a mobile phone. There are no manufacturing or distribution costs, just a simple one time software download.

The Authentication Server can be expanded to include Diamelle Technologies’ Enterprise Identity Management solution available for large corporations. The Diamelle IDM is an integrated, full featured product built on a Java Enterprise Edition (JAVA EE) platform with WS-I compliant web services to facilitate integration and provides authentication with Single Sign-on, authorization, user management, policy management, user self-service, audit, password management and delegated administration. Diamelle offers a seamless migration path from the Authentication server to the IDM solution.