What is Single Sign On?
Single Sign on or SSO provides centralised management security and logons for all your cloud apps like Office 365, GoogleApps, Salesforce, Zendesk, Slack, Box, Xero, insightly, Soho CRM to name a few plus many, many more.
These are the links that cloud based service Okta support and likewise for Microsoft. If you don’t see an application that you use there is however a good chance that it can be supported with a little bit of configuration
Who is it for?
Computers are better at remembering passwords in a secure fashion than people. Single Sign on is for everyone in business – at home you might use a tool like KeePass to help remember passwords– at work the boss or his IT team ultimately want control and need to stop you using your mothers maiden name for the work Amazon account.
What are the benefits?
- Ease of Use – Improves workflows one central place to access company resources.
- Reduces time to setup or disable users and so reduces administrative costs – adding to the HR application will eventually add the mailbox and backup account
- Security – Users only need one password and sign in just once, then SSO enables you to log into all other linked sites with secure encryption
- Likewise, when a user leaves the company you also only need to lock them out from one place,then access to everything will be blocked and stakeholders assets are protected.
TechRelate has so far tested numerous SSO providers including Microsoft’s and Okta. Many more are coming into the market place and some of which you have seen already. When you see ‘sign in with Facebook’ – this is an example of single sign on – TechRelate believes an organisation like Microsoft is better at managing your business security than Facebook. So for the price of a cup of coffee per user per month talk to us today about securing your business and protecting your online identity. Come and chat to us and the coffee is on us.