Tired of carrying around that RSA SecurID token thingie from 1994, all beige and chewed on routinely by kids and dogs alike? RSA now has an iPhone app for that. Using the SecurID token you can have the exact same functionality using the iPhone that you would otherwise have to use a keychain dongle for. If you’re like me and have been trying to reduce the items you carry on your person for a long time this is a fantastic new option. And in a way, RSA is just helping to make a case for using an iPhone in highly secured Enterprise environments (not that they’re not helping to make the same case with their Blackberry version of a SecurID application).
The application is free, but you’re organization will have likely already purchased a seed that costs much more than an iPhone app that they charge for would have made them… Tokens will need some conversion and then users will need to click on a link to install them (I’ll cover that later if I can find the time) but once you have it setup then it will be a bit easier to deploy. I’d like to find a way to insert it into a provisioning profile but again I’ll just need a bit more time to figure that out. Look for further posts at a later date.