Collaborate Disseminate
G Suite™ is one of the most popular productivity solutions for business users. Originally going by the name Google Apps, it arrived on the scene roughly a decade ago. It was brought on as a way to eliminate on-prem software such as Microsoft Exch… Continue reading G Suite™ Self-Service Password Resets
As the single sign-on (SSO) market heats up and more players file in, a common question arises. Okta® has done a tremendous job of being the cloud hosted web application single sign-on leader since going public in 2017. However, as the big dogs li… Continue reading Is There A Better Okta® Out There?
As more startups emerge and begin taking their identity security seriously, IT admins working for these organizations are searching for smart, cost-effective ways to control access to their IT resources. Finding and employing highly scalable, robust IT… Continue reading What Are the Best Okta® Alternatives for Startups?
As the IT landscape changes and shifts, there’s been a migration to the cloud. However, not all IT management tools have made the shift to the cloud. Directory services, for example, has been one of the last IT management categories to make the j… Continue reading Justifying Moving Directory Services to the Cloud
The identity management space is getting more complex, but in doing so, more interesting. It used to be that everything was based off of the core identity provider, Microsoft® Active Directory® (AD or MAD). Today, though, a new generation of … Continue reading The Battle of Directory Services vs SSO
Comparing Ping Identity® and JumpCloud® Directory-as-a-Service® isn’t really an apples to apples comparison. Each identity management solution has the ability to access different types of IT resources, so comparing them is n… Continue reading Comparing Ping Identity® and JumpCloud®
As more IT organizations begin to shift their identity management infrastructure to the cloud, the competition for SaaS identity management solutions is heating up. In the web application single sign-on, also known as SSO, landscape, it is often Azure&… Continue reading Comparing Azure® Active Directory® and Okta®
I’m working with an organization that’s integrating a lot of apps with LDAP in a Windows environment. They are doing a good job of implementing least privilege, so there aren’t a lot of scenarios where an admin account on one… Continue reading Risks for implementing single sign on
Typically Single Sign On is implemented with existing protocols like SAML or OAuth. If all the sites belongs to the same parent domain such as a.example.com and b.example.com, we can also set a session cookie for example.com … Continue reading Parent domain cookies for Single Sign on
It seems like every week brings some sort of new password-related frustration. Usually it involves a data breach of some website where passwords weren’t encrypted and are now compromised. But there are other situations that come up, too, like the time… Continue reading Slowly Moving Toward a Future Without Passwords