One of the biggest advantage of the SecureAuth IdP solution – is that allows our customers to achieve all the advantages of SecureAuth‘s continuing efforts to perfect 2-Factor Access control for the enterprise. The improvements for 7.4 include major feature advancements in the areas of mobile SSO, cloud SSO, 2-Factor authentication and enterprise access management.
Image #1: SecureAuth IdP is designed to to redirect authentication to a central resource – and thus customers achieve the functionality and security improvements of the SecureAuth innovations, without re-engineering their web, cloud, mobile and network deployments.
SecureAuth 7.4 – Improvements for Cloud 2FA/SSO
SecureAuth brings several major improvement for enterprises with SSO, and 2-Factor requirments for their cloud applications. These improvements include:
SSO for for AWS Servers for Admin Logon
Enterprises are moving many of their servers to the cloud – especially Amazon’s cloud. With SecureAuth IdP 7.4 they can use their enterprise credentials (AD, LDAP, SQL, etc) and SecureAuth’s 2-factor support (SMS, Telephony, NFC, PUSH, .509, Device fingerprinting, etc) for secure access for AWS admins. SecureAuth supports both the admin GUI logon and the customer APIs.
Installation Wizard for Microsoft Office 365
SecureAuth supports all major cloud providers including Google, Salesforce, Concur, Workday and 100s of others. Now we have made enterprise installation a simple “Next->Next->Finish” process with admin friendly wizards. One of the latest installation, at popular request, was Microsoft Office 365.
SecureAuth 7.4 – Improvements for Mobile 2FA/SSO
SecureAuth IdP for Mobile SDK
SecureAuth greatly simplifies the integration process of SecureAuth IdP for Mobile with an easy to understand SDK kit. This enables developers to integrate SecureAuth’s patented authentication and SSO technology directly into their Android, iOS, and Windows native mobile apps. Sign up today for SecureAuth’s mobile quick-start program.
X.509 SCEP Support for MDMs and other Resources
Many enterprises want to take advantage of SecureAuth’s cloud-based certificate services – via their pre-existing certificate delivery systems. The most common of these requirements come enterprises wanting to use their MDMs, such as MobileIron and AirWatch, for certificate delivery to their mobile users. SecureAuth supports these certificate request via the industry standard SCEP protocol. Thus enterprises, get all the security advantages of X.509 certificates, without the headache of supporting the PKI infrastructure.
Wizard for Airwatch MDM - 2-Factor Authentication
MDMs are important to enterprises – and the authentication of users during user MDM registration is vital to a secure mobile roll-out. SecureAuth provides this integration via it’s 2-factor authentication based on enterprise credentials.
SecureAuth 7.4 – Improvements for 2-Factor Authentication
Chrome Extension based OATH-Token
SecureAuth has it’s own TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password) tokens. The form factors include an Android App, an iOS app, a Blackberry app, a Windows app and a Mac App. Now SecureAuth adds a universal chrome-based extension to its OATH toke support. Thus users can use virtually any device to generate a 1-time access code, as long as they are securely registered via the SecureAuth IdP authentication system.
Support for Symantec VIP 2-Factor Authentication
SecureAuth not only supports it own authentication mechanisms (SMS, Telephony, PUSH, OATH Token, Fingerprinting, x.509) but also has a broad range support of other 3rd party authentication mechanisms (CAC/PIV, X.509 Smart Cards, OATH tokens from HID and other parties, NFC Prox Cards, Yubikey USB keys, Microsoft and Google OATH authenticators and others.)
To add to this extensive list, SecureAuth IdP now allows enterprises to utilize Symantec VIP in the SecureAuth Identity and Access Funnel.
SecureAuth 7.4 – Improvements for Enterprise Access Control
SecureAuth SSO support for CAS SSO Clients (Central Authentication Service)
One of the common request for SecureAuth is for SSO integration into other SSO technologies. SecureAuth is designed for enterprise integration – and thus SecureAuth encourages these request – and delivers. For CAS, SecureAuth is able to construct post-authentication tokens that a CAS-enabled client will consume.
SecureAuth PDP support for CA SiteMinder
SecureAuth has made major improvement on it’s PDP service that enables enterprises to enforce their CA SiteMinder policies via other authentication mechanisms. SecureAuth has perfected the utilization in a rapid and scalable fashion. One of our most scalable of solutions is for the F5 APM, enables enterprises to remove their CA agents and utilize F5 APM as the enforcement point. SecureAuth made major improvement on performance for both authentication and authorization for CA SiteMinder policies.
Relentless pursuit of perfection for 2-Factor Access Control – that is SecureAuth and SecureAuth 7.4 exemplifies this mission.
Please contact us for more information.
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Garret Grajek is CTO/COO and a co-founder of SecureAuth. SecureAuth is a single appliance solution that delivers configurable 2-Factor and SSO authentication for Mobile, Web, VPN, and SaaS based solutions.