Federation 2.0: The Symplified Approach to Practical Federation
SinglePoint Federation Services provides comprehensive next-generation federation capabilities that meet the needs of today’s organizations while overcoming the limitations of Federation 1.0. SinglePoint Federation Services is delivered to you by the same team that was instrumental in the formation of the federation standards, AuthXML and SAML; so you have proven expertise. SinglePoint Federation Services is the first solution to bring together the entire IAM stack, including federated SSO, provisioning, authentication, authorization and auditing into a unified modular solution.
SinglePoint Federation services leverage the industry’s first federation capabilities and trust broker to deliver rapid deployments. The innovative HTTP-FED technology from Symplified eliminates the requirement for organizations to adopt SAML or retrofit all their apps, thus extending the reach of SSO to more than 30 times that of competing federation approaches. SinglePoint Federation Services are provided as a managed subscription service eliminating 80% of the traditional federation expense and allowing you to focus on your core business rather than identity and integration.
SinglePoint Federation Services: Federation 2.0
SinglePoint Federated Single Sign-On
Applying SinglePoint Federation to SSO frees enterprises from managing more passwords and user credentials. Whether it’s your employees signing onto apps inside your firewall or in the cloud, Federated SSO streamlines the user experience by reducing the number of accounts that must be managed. As your organization extends access to your applications with partners and customers, supporting external users that have federation capabilities is a simple way to enhance customer experience, increase adoption of your app, drive new revenues and reduce administrative costs. In addition to supporting SAML 1.1 and 2.0 both as a service provider (SP) or an identity provider (IdP), SinglePoint takes federated SSO much further with it HTTP-FED technology. HTTP-FED makes it possible to extend SSO even to apps and sites that do not support SAML, thereby expanding your coverage by 30 times.
SinglePoint Federated Authentication & Tracking
Authenticating users, distinct from SSO, is a challenge for service providers looking to delegate user management to its users. Considering most organizations do not have SAML, but have Active Directory or some kind of LDAP, the simplest way to authenticate users is to use what’s already in place. SinglePoint supports multiple ways to delegate authentication of users including using Windows Kerberos/IWA, Active Directory, LDAP, SQL, and Web services. Authentication through SinglePoint does not need a federation, only an Internet accessible directory. Highly secured apps require the ability to ‘up authenticate’ to stronger authentication and Symplified offers industry leading Arcot tokens for multi-factor access solutions.
A service provider can enforce access controls to resources using identity data from an IdP. Additionally, as an IdP, you can control what apps are accessed on third party networks (such as SaaS apps). Identity providers need to have visibility into user activities for audit purposes of demonstrating compliance. If you have no logged data of access to your SaaS apps, you likely can’t meet an auditor’s demands. SinglePoint allows you to offer a consolidated view of activity across your federated networks. Proxies are needed for this.
