Software applications play an important role in our lives. Whether it is in the home or workplace, we use them for communicating with people, staying up-to-date with the things happening in the world, keeping entertained, doing work and much more. Salesforce is a cloud computing service as a software (SaaS) company that specializes in customer…
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Work Securely with Your Partners and Contractors
In today’s modern era, it is very common for enterprises to work with contractors and business partners. This brings a variety of users from outside the network. These users are known broadly as the extended enterprise. Though the extended enterprise can be critical in enabling organizations to scale their business, it also brings massive risks…
What is Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) is a software tool or service that sits between an organization’s on-premises infrastructure and a cloud provider’s infrastructure. A CASB acts as a gatekeeper, allowing the organization to extend the reach of their security policies beyond their own infrastructure. CASBs work by ensuring that network traffic between on-premises devices…
How to configure SSO with Salesforce using IBM Cloud Identity Connect
This guide describes detailed steps for configuring SAML 2.0 federated single sign-on using predefined connector between IBM Cloud Identity and Salesforce. For this federation configuration, IBM Cloud Identity acts as Identity Provider (IDP). Salesforce acts as Service Provider (SP). Following are the high level steps for configuring SSO between IBM Cloud Identity and Salesforce: Configure…
Getting started with IBM Cloud Identity Connect
IBM allows you to create a a 30 days trial account for IBM Cloud Identity Connect. If you are already leveraging one of the other IBM Cloud products then you can enjoy IBM Cloud Identity Connect for one year. How to create a new account for IBM Cloud Identity Connect – Go to IBM Marketplace…
IBM Cloud Identity
In an effort to help speed cloud adoption across the enterprise, IBM released a new identity management solution on June 15, 2017 that simplifies employee access to business applications across a hybrid cloud environment. IBM Cloud Identity Connect is designed for managing how employees gain access to their preferred business applications. It is a new…
IDaaS Vendors to Watch
Gartner analysts predict that by 2020, 40 percent of IAM purchases will use IDaaS delivery model, a two-fold increase from less than 20 percent today. Perhaps more important is that 40 percent of those IDaaS implications will entirely replace on-premises IAM implementations, according to Gartner. Future, is in the cloud. Here are the top IDaaS…
What is Identity as a Service (IDaaS)
What is IDaas? Identity as a Service (IDaaS) is cloud-based authentication operated by a third-party provider. The X-as-a-service model means some feature (X) is being delivered or served through a remote connection from a third-party provider, as opposed to a feature being managed on site and by in-house personnel alone. Very simple and day to…
What is Hybrid Cloud?
As the name indicates, it is the functional combination of both public and private clouds. A public cloud like Microsoft Azure leverages the shared chunks of networking infrastructure, computing and its storage which are rented on a specific time basis for the customers. A private cloud comes with the same components but will be restricted…