BIO-key International, Inc. announced that the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College has selected its PortalGuard IDaaS(R) platform. PortalGuard's cloud-based Identity as a Service solution supports over 3 million users, including students, faculty, staff, and administration at over 200 higher education institutions. PortalGuard delivers the levels of security with unmatched integration flexibility and authentication options, including biometrics.

Massive amounts of data stored by colleges and universities make them frequent targets of cybercriminals. To protect it against these threats, ABAC sought to expand its enterprise-wide IAM framework to provide more secure and frictionless access to institutional systems and critical data. PortalGuard IDaaS significantly improves security with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) for campus-wide applications, such as Microsoft 365 and Ellucian Banner.

PortalGuard also substantially reduces help desk costs with self-service password reset capabilities, delivering immediate return on investment.