How can your organization maintain security now that employees are working from home? When an employee begins working from home, it is important that they have an understanding of how to protect the security of your organization’s resources. From VPNs, MFA, and...
Providing easy and secure access to enterprise applications is something that every organization aspires to do. Single Sign-On (SSO) can offer a significant improvement in efficiency because you can access all of your resources and applications with a single set of...
An Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution is critical to improving your security efforts and can help your organization realize additional benefits (e.g., eliminating wasted time, increasing efficiency, and cutting down on costs). Below is a brief look into how...
Learning and technology go together as it has become apparent that technology is an effective way to engage students. However, technology introduces challenges to the classroom such as cost, administration and ease of use; particularly for younger students or those...
In part one of this blog series, we showed how access governance, in conjunction with automated provisioning and de-provisioning of user accounts are essential in preventing internal data breach on an organization's network. Today we are going to discuss how to take...
Where do you physically work? In an office? At home? At a table in your local coffee shop? It is becoming more common for employers to allow their employees to work outside the traditional office space. With the use of laptops, tablets and mobile devices there is...
Cloud computing has opened up a new world of IT infrastructure that poses many advantages for organizations such as enhanced accessibility, scalability, cost efficiency and security. Let us take cloud based access workflows for example, they offer many advantages over...
Currently, the number of applications and software solutions in use by businesses is increasing rapidly. It is not uncommon that one business may utilize dozens of applications, each with their own set of credentials for each user. Many of these applications (both on...
Microsoft Cloud is revolutionizing the way organizations across various industries operate; providing various services at a minimal cost and scalability that fits the needs of any organization. Microsoft’s productivity service Office 365 has opened the doors for...
Do you ever find yourself nodding along when it comes to technology but not really knowing the in’s and out’s of what’s being said? The challenge (and beauty) of technology is that the second you're up to date, your information is old and has since evolved once again....
With so many passwords to remember today, the answers are abundant: Single Sign-On solutions (SSO) have been around for a while now, and for good reason. They are extremely helpful for many areas of your organization and require minimal effort to implement and use....
Asking companies for their password policy on a regular basis, I find that many organizations have no strict policy on passwords, which results in an immediate risk to the organization. Microsoft's security best practice advice is to: let the password expire every 30...
With the continued increase of applications hosted in the cloud, organizations in all industries struggle with providing simple and secure access to their employees. This includes from within the organization's network on company-owned computers as well as from device...
In many situations, authority to access a specific application is given to only chosen individuals, for security reasons. This can become an issue when that individual is out of the office for an extended period of time, and others who are dependent on this...
1. Your users access multiple application each requiring a password. Depending on their job function users can access anywhere from 5 to 20 applications per day. With this many passwords to remember the simple act of logging in to each application can take longer than...
You may not realize it but you have probably used multifactor authentication already in your daily life. Have you made a purchase with a credit card and entered your zip code after the card was swiped? This is a form of two-factor authentication; the credit card...
Many believe that SSO is a security risk, since an intruder would only need one set of credentials for access. This is a common misconception about SSO.
As technology has evolved, SSO has become more difficult to implement. Lets look at the issue in more detail and options on how to solve the problems.
You probably know that Single Sign-On (SSO) software allows users to login with a single set of credentials, but there is much more to SSO than that!
You may have heard about SSO, but do you know exactly what it is and how it can benefit the healthcare industry?