What Is Single Sign On And How Does It Benefit My Business?
Introduction In recent years, the term “Single Sign On” has become more and more popular in the business world. But what is Single Sign On (SSO), and how can it benefit your business? SSO is an authentication strategy that allows users to access multiple applications with one set of credentials. This is usually done by […]
PingOne MFA integration with PingFederate
Introduction One of security challenges is to verify that a user requesting access to a protected resource is who they claim to be and that they are permitted to access the requested resource. MFA is a process that uses two or more factors to verify an identity. These factors are:- Knowledge (username/password, PIN, etc), Possession […]
Office 365 integration with PingFederate
Introduction Office 365 is Microsoft’s cloud-based Office solution. Out of two variants of Office 365 that Microsoft offers (desktop option, where users have Office applications (e.g.: Word, etc) installed locally on desktops, but documents and files are stored in the cloud; and a web client, where both documents and applications are stored in the Cloud. […]
DON’T BE THE NEXT VICTIM OF A CYBER ATTACK
Cyber-attacks are demolishing businesses more than COVID-19 is. Don’t trust us? See these two stats (there are tons of other stats): Up to 88% of UK companies have suffered cyber-attacks in the last 12 months (Source) One small business in the UK is successfully hacked every 19 seconds. (Source) And this isn’t even the worst news. The […]
FREERADIUS AUTHENTICATION WITH LDAP (OPENDJ)
FreeRadius authentication with LDAP (OpenDJ) Requirements freeRadius Software (Version 3.0.21) OpenDJ (Version 6.5.3) Mac – Linux Environment Installation freeRadius Installed through Brew # brew install freeradius-server OpenDJ Download the latest OpendJ from Forgerock backstage and Install it by running the setup command. Please make a note of port, password for Directory Manager and BaseDN Configurations freeRadius […]
OKTA SINGLE SLIDE OVERVIEW
Being an Okta consultant and accredited sales partner I get opportunities to run pre-sales and post-sales meetings and few times I have been asked by senior management to showcase Okta features on a single page. Customers like to see a big picture where they can relate all the problems they are trying to solve with Okta. It […]
DASHBOARD FOR PINGFEDERATE INTEGRATED APPLICATIONS
PingFederate is an enterprise federation server that enables user authentication and single sign-on. It serves as a global authentication authority that allows employees, customers and partners to securely access all the applications they need from any device. PingFederate easily integrates with applications across the enterprise, third-party authentication sources, diverse user directories and existing IAM systems. […]
BASIC AND LEGACY AUTHENTICATION ARE RETIRED BY MICROSOFT
Microsoft is removing basic authentication on 13th October 2020 from Exchange online. How does it affect your Exchange setup? Once retired all the client devices using basic authentication will not be able to authenticate and will stop getting data from the servers. It affects Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), IMAP, POP, and Remote PowerShell and few other […]
IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2019
Identity management is not more limited to user provisioning and single sign on. It is business enabler. With the predicted growth of digital identities, it is becoming critical for business leader to keep the identity management in their top priorities to remain leader in their domain. Growing business to business IAM The customer identity management […]
THE STATE OF MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION (MFA)
Keeping up with change and new technological developments is one of the basic challenges of cyber-security. The hype and excitement around IoT, Cloud and Big data developments is shared by everybody, including those seeking to exploit vulnerabilities. A staggering 60% of the respondents to Thales’s 2019 Data Threat Report have experienced a breach until now, out of […]