http://www.singlesignon.com From convenience to security, everything you need to know about Single Sign-on. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:40:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This recent article on Dr. Dobb's echos what we've been saying for months: If your password is compromised, whether or not it's your fault, it's always your problem.  If developing a web application is in your future, you must read this article. ...Decouple the authentication process from your application and take ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/dr-dobbs-user-authentication-it-doesnt-belong-in-your-application Peter Cooke at Bloor Research recently wrote this interesting article on the history and future of IAM. Single sign-on solutions (SSO) have been developed to help with this issue. SSO systems enable users to log in once only and then be automatically authenticated when they attempt access to other resources. There ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/the-evolution-of-identity-and-access-management According to The Register, Microsoft's Hotmail has begun requiring the use of third-party cookies in order for its users to successfully log out of their accounts. Third party cookies are most commonly used by advertising networks to track surfers across the web and are often blocked by browsers, by default, ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/hotmail-imposes-tracking-cookies-for-logout NetDeposit, a company that enables businesses to streamline their revenue collection and management with proven payment technologies, recently announced they've selected a Single Sign-on solution to ensure compliance with Federation Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) risk mitigation guidelines. They have selected TriCipher's myOneLogin service to provide strong customer/client authentication for its ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/sso-for-ffiec-compliance Here's another look at the security aspects of implementing a single sign-on solution behind your company's firewall.   SSO solutions basically ensure your employee's password are secure by adding second and third factors to authentication. Then, users are automatically authenticated to their everyday applications (including email and internal applications). Some programs ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/using-single-sign-on-to-manage-employee-passwords When thinking of Single Sign-On, most people initially  consider the increase in end-user convenience and back-end user management.  A single sign-on solution, however, should be considered when creating a risk-management process for your company's data. Industry analyst Gregg Kreizmann, of Gartner Inc., says small companies are increasingly turning to such "single sign-on" ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/using-single-sign-on-to-protect-your-companys-data NetworkWorld has written a nice article about 10 Google Apps add-ons for the enterprise which includes myOneLogin, a 3rd party solution for enhancing the security of your users' Google apps access. This particular app provides users with a single sign-on, two-factor authentication portal that is easy to set up and deploy for ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/two-factor-authentication-for-google-apps TriCipher, a leading provider of Internet identity services, recently announced that Oracle Business Process Outsourcing partner MavenWire has selected the myOneLogin Secure Single Sign-on service to support its transition to Google Apps Premier for employees across three continents. MavenWire is a rapidly-growing business services company that provides consulting, training, Business Process ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/mavenwire-choose-triciphers-myonelogin-for-secure-web-single-sign-on In a recent InformatonWeek article, Andrew Conry-Murray writes how a growing number of Single Sign-on services are helping users manage multiple Saas Passwords. These providers build back-end integrations with a variety of SaaS applications so that companies have to make only one connection--to the provider's service--to enjoy SSO for multiple Web ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/another If your company relies on cloud-based applications (Salesforce, Google Apps, etc) for its every day business, you may consider a single sign-on solution not just for the convenience, but for the security.   In a recent article on ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Parez does an excellent job explaining how Single Sign-on is ... http://www.singlesignon.com/sso/single-sign-on-for-the-cloud