Securing data with Authentication as a Service in the cloud, mobile era

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Dan Sullivan.

Incidents of international cyberespionage, attacks on financial institutions and intellectual property thefts help maintain a steady stream of news about information security. Passwords and logins are not the raw material of headline grabbing stories, but they are the security issues IT professionals must face daily. The rise in adoption of cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS) and mobile computing has increased the complexity of managing users and their identities.

Security practitioners have spent decades developing methods for strong authentication to mitigate these risks that are easy to use and as secure as possible. Single sign-on (SSO) systems allow users to authenticate to a central application one time and then automatically authenticate to other applications and systems…

Fortunately, SSO services for the cloud, known as Authentication as a Service (AaaS), deliver some of the benefits of SaaS to authentication management. Businesses, governments and other organizations adopt AaaS for a number of reasons, including expanded user bases as well as budgetary and time concerns…

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