Tag Archives: Single sign-on

January 31, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

More Proof That Shadow IT is a Growing Issue

By Ben Kepes

When talking with organizations about how the cloud can help them, I’m often told that cloud has no place in their organization and they’re not using it in any way, shape or form. They also point to the perceived security risks that cloud brings as their #1 reason for not

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October 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

OneLogin Launches Cross-Application Search

By Ben Kepes

The announcement by Salesforce a few weeks ago that it was moving into the enterprise Single Sign on (SSO) space was both an excellent validation that sso across cloud and on-premise applications is needed, but also a rude awakening to the existing independent SSO vendors like OneLogin and Okta. While

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July 11, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Appsecute Launches–PaaS marketplace and Management Platform

By Ben Kepes

A few months ago I was at an event in the US and received a tweet introducing me to some guys back in New Zealand who were apparently building something on top of Cloud Foundry. Now New Zealand isn’t exactly the central hub of the tech universe, and I’d always

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December 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Okta Focuses on Application Discovery and Self-Service

By Ben Kepes

Okta (more coverage here) is this morning announcing a new self-service capability built upon its own Okta Application Network,a pre-integrated package of multiple business and consumer applications in one hit. The idea here is that enterprise IT organizations will be able to publish their own custom application catalog and then

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October 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OKTA Builds Native MFA SSO Offering

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written a bunch in the past about how single sign on is growing in importance as organizations and the individuals inside them struggle to manage the wealth of different applications they interface with. One of the tools that is able to manage this difficult is Single SIgn On (SSO).

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September 21, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Okta and Cloud Sherpas Partner to Accelerate GAPE Enterprise Adoption

By Ben Kepes

Identity management is one of the big challenges to be faced in easing the adoption of cloud within enterprise. Okta (more on them here) and Cloud Sherpas (more on them here) have announced a partnership that is squarely aimed at easing the barriers of entry into enterprise for Google Apps.

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August 25, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Active Directory Integration for Cloud SSO. Okta Latest to Integrate

By Ben Kepes

Okta (previous coverage here) is today joining other cloud-based SSO offerings and releasing an edition designed to integrate single sign on into Active Directory to bridge the authentication gap between on-premise and cloud software. The move is a tacit admission of the fact that, for better or worse, most enterprises

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June 14, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Integration is Great Xero. What of Those Security Issues Though?

By Ben Kepes

A year ago I remarked upon Xero’s entry to the Google apps marketplace congratulating Xero for being part of the Google initiative but questioning why the integration wasn’t deeper. As I said at the time; I clicked the link and was taken to a Google Apps Marketplace page which was

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May 25, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OKTA Goes Free Trial for Identity Management

By Ben Kepes

I wrote a little while ago about the “salesforce.com mafia”. One of those I profiled back then was Okta founder Todd McKinnon, I spent some time talking to McKinnon the other day, in advance of the release of Okta’s free trial of its SSO product. The timing for our discussion

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October 1, 2010 Posted in Challenges, daily workflow, passwords, technology Leave a comment

On Passwords and Process, Technology to Enable Better Outcomes

By Ben Kepes

I’m often confronted by people who declare their concerns about “newfangled technologies” in the business place. These people are generally comfortable in a position they’ve held for years, understand the tools for their job particularly well, and tend to resist change (be it technological or otherwise). There’s no question that a move from paper-based to [...]

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