Yubico, a leading provider of easy and secure login solutions, and OneLogin, a cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) provider, today announced a joint solution for managing access to multiple cloud-based applications that has been implemented for Sterling Knight. All three companies expressed confidence that the solution is effectively addressing security, compliance and cost challenges common to financial service companies across the globe. Read entire press release.

Sterling Knight, a financial services company based in Singapore, is using the innovative authentication key from Yubico and OneLogin’s single sign-on and identity management service. The convenient key generates a One-Time Password (OTP) used by Sterling Knight remote workers to securely access the OneLogin Application Portal, protecting access to its Web applications without compromising ease-of-use.

“With OneLogin and YubiKey, we are able to login securely to our cloud-based applications such as Google Apps and salesforce.com with one password and the simple click of a button,” said Lawrence Adam, Chief Operating Officer of Sterling Knight. “The implementation of the OneLogin/YubiKey solution was so simple that even our least technical employees were trained to use it in about 15 minutes.”

Leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC recently reviewed the joint solution used by Sterling Knight in a Buyer Case Study and found that companies such as OneLogin and Yubico are demonstrating that cloud-based solutions are indeed viable and secure options in today's computing environment.

“For those that are looking to eliminate multiple passwords and strengthen their access controls without putting too much pressure on their budgets and staff should consider these types of solutions from Yubico and OneLogin,” said Sally Hudson, Research Director, Identity and Access Management Products and Services at IDC.

By using the OneLogin/YubiKey solution, Sterling Knight has improved security while meeting compliance requirements and offering the latest technology to protect customer privacy. The cost savings gained by having more employees work remotely has enabled Sterling Knight to expand operations.

About Sterling Knight

Sterling Knight is a licensed insurance broker in Singapore, regulated and licensed by the Monetary Authority in Singapore to transact general and life insurance. Since its inception in 1973, Sterling Knight has worked with clients to protect their businesses and employees through the provision of general insurance and employee benefits consultancy and according to the principles of trust, integrity and speed.

Sterling Knight is a member of the Worldwide Broker Network, a global network of independent insurance brokers with USD2 billion revenue.

OneLogin and Sheepdoginc.ca have partnered to give customers an easy-to-use identity management solution that provides security-enhancing functionality, such as single sign-on, user provisioning and directory integration. (press release)

“Google Apps is one of many cloud solutions used by our customers,” explains Julia Rivard, Sheepdoginc.ca’s CEO. “By partnering with OneLogin, we enable our customers to take their siloed cloud applications and bring them under one roof to better manage access as well as remove the security issues inherent to user-managed passwords.”

Identity management offers a number of security and productivity-enhancing benefits to Sheepdoginc.ca customers:

• Secure, one-click access to Google Apps and other web-based applications drives-up adoption.
• One directory integration point eliminates the need to integrate with every application's proprietary interface.
• Support for multi-factor authentication provides customers with the option to easily add another level of secuity.
• User provisioning for key applications such as Google Apps, Salesforce, Yammer, Box.net and Zendesk means administrators can save significant time as well as ensures that former employees are effectively prevented access.

OneLogin announces its Active Directory Connector that enables the authentication of cloud application users against an organization's Active Directory.

While IT benefits from having a single directory integration point, employees can use their Windows credentials to access web applications, hosted in the cloud and behind the firewall. By eliminating the need for employees to remember several usernames, passwords and login URLs, OneLogin increases the adoption of cloud applications and reduces the security risks inherent with the repeated use of weak login credentials.

“Enterprises are keen to reap the benefits of cloud computing, but do not want to abandon their existing IT infrastructure,” explains Thomas Pedersen, CEO at OneLogin. “Our new Active Directory Connector allows them to extend their directories deep into the cloud with no custom development required.”

As enterprises continue to adopt cloud computing, integrating their existing directory with various applications’ proprietary authentication APIs poses both security risks and maintenance headaches. OneLogin’s Active Directory Connector provides a single integration point that enables enterprises to centralize authentication, eliminate passwords and make it easier for employees to access web applications.

OneLogin enables any enterprise to get single sign-on within minutes via Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). Users can easily and securely connect to SAML enabled applications, such as Salesforce, WebEx, Google Apps, Workday, Yammer, Central Desktop, SugarCRM, KnowledgeTree, SAManage and many others.

View Press Release here. 

SAManage, provider of on-demand IT management software, joins the ranks of visionary could vendors who leveraged OneLogin's free and open-source SAML toolkit to implement web-based single sign-on. By eliminating the need for password-based logins, SAManage customers now benefit from secure, one-click access to their IT asset management (ITAM) and IT service management (ITSM) software. (press release)

As enterprise adoption of cloud-based solutions continues to grow, it's important for vendors to help enterprises reduce the number of passwords and get better control of cloud security as well as making it easier for the employees to access all their applications. 

If your company is managing IT assets, try a free 30-day trial with SAManage.

KnowledgeTree, a cloud-based document management solution, leveraged OneLogin’s free, open-source SAML Toolkit to implement web-based single sign-on (press release). OneLogin's dashboard gives KnowledgeTree customers one-click access to their documents, as well as all other cloud-based software; they no longer need to remember several destination URLs or re-use the same weak username and password to access on-demand software. 

With the use of SAML, KnowledgeTree strengthened security for its customers and provided a fast and easy way to access their account. Security is critical when your enterprise data resides in the cloud, but ease-of-use is also needed to drive user-adoption. If logging into a cloud application is worry-free and trouble-free, then usage and productivity goes up.

SAML is ideal for the enterprise because it offers strong security and flexibility, is easy to manage, and as a standards-based SSO protocol it lets the enterprise choose its identity management provider. SAML has traditionally been non-trivial to implement, but with OneLogin's free, open-source toolkit, cloud application vendors can now implement SAML in hours or days.

If you are interested in SAML-enabling your own cloud application, take a look at the documentation for the Rails toolkit or contact us at vendor@onelogin.com. The code is also available on GitHub at: http://github.com/onelogin.