ProtectNetwork Single Sign-On Enterprise Identity Service Upgraded

The ProtectNetwork outsourced enterprise identity service has been upgraded to support a wide variety of open standards single sign-on security protocols and enterprise centric features.
By: Sarah Russell
 
April 16, 2009 - PRLog -- ProtectNetwork is an outsourced enterprise identity service on the Internet. Enterprise applications, websites and SaaS applications on the Internet use ProtectNetwork as a source of secure, trusted, user authentication for their users. End-Users use their single ProtectNetwork user credential to securely log into a wide variety of online resources worldwide in a seamless manner. No need to re-login multiple times with multiple passwords and credentials.

Enterprise Administrators provision their Users (Employees, Partners, Customers, Contractors and Guests) into ProtectNetwork and enable access to their Campus Network resources for such Users using ProtectNetwork authentication and access management services. This helps enterprise clients drastically reduce their helpdesk and identity management costs and increase security benefits. They no longer need to deploy and manage expensive IdM (Identity Management) components on their local infrastructure. Customers simply acquire such benefits on demand from ProtectNetwork!

ProtectNetwork is open standards based and is compatible with SAML 2, SAML 1.1, Shibboleth v1.3+, Shibboleth v2.0+ and OpenID single sign-on security standards.

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

* End-Users self register and manage their User Credentials including password resets and userID recovery.

* Website and SaaS Application Administrators self-register and manage their applications on ProtectNetwork and use ProtectNetwork for external authentication and access management needs

* Enterprise ID Administrators self provision and manage their users on ProtectNetwork and enable access for such users based on Roles, Usernames and Application Grants.

* Fully open standards compliant, not a proprietary solution.

* Single Sign-On enabled

* No need to buy expensive on campus IdM components, simply lease the service on demand based on need.

ProtectNetwork service has been in operation since 2004 and continues to grow by leaps and bounds in the educational, healthcare, energy, government and commercial markets.

ProtectNetwork service is also available to customers via several higher-education partners worldwide such as the InCommon federation in the USA, UK access management federation in the UK, SWAMI federation in Sweden and Edugate federation in Ireland.

A small sample of growing list of clients is available at http://www.protectnetwork.org/sites/ .

ProtectNetwork Website http://www.protectnetwork.org/

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9STAR RESEARCH INC, established in 2002, is a software company and has been providing high value software solutions to academic, healthcare, financial, commercial and government customers worldwide. The company offers industry leading products such as ActiveShareFS 2007, Pronto, ProtectNetwork, and DiscoverMe and IT services in the area of Federated Access, Shibboleth, SAML, Microsoft SharePoint, Active Directory, and advanced Microsoft and Linux/JAVA technologies.

ActiveShareFS, DiscoverMe, and ProtectNetwork are registered trademarks of 9STAR RESEARCH INC.
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Source:Sarah Russell
Email:***@9starresearch.com
Zip:78746
Tags:Shibboleth, Saml, Identity, Single Sign On, Authentication, Saas, Security, Access Control, Login, Password
Industry:Education, Energy, Health
Location:Austin - Texas - United States
Page Updated Last on: May 07, 2009
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