An online data theft or a privacy breach can negatively impact a brand and compromise its customers’ trust in the brand. Conversely, improving security can help differentiate your brand, build loyalty and drive greater revenues.

Outsourcing 2FA infrastructure delivers exceptional protection while dramatically lowering the costs of a 2FA solution and provides the alternative to an in-house traditional solution.

Outsourcing your 2FA infrastructure is also referred to as ‘in the cloud services’ or as using a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. VeriSign® Identity Protection (VIP) delivers through the SaaS model, a high level of security without the cost and complexity of traditional solutions.

This business strategy provides the following advantages:

* Zero up-front capital investment in infrastructure
* No in-house operational costs (e.g., ongoing IT staffing and training, maintenance, and upgrades).
* Provides high reliability and scalability of the service.
* Delivers rapid ROI as it is ready for implementation
* Quick time-to-market.

Business justification is a key to convincing executive stakeholders about the credibility of a new technology or service. By creating a comparative cost model for procuring and operating authentication systems in-house versus outsourcing it, IT decision makers can assertively move forward their security agenda.

SaaS, industry experts agree hit the mainstream in 2008, its success attributed to changes in market perceptions and of course economic factors. Gartner predicts that in the next three years, the SaaS market will more than double, reaching nearly $15 billion by 2012.1

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