As organizations constantly seek to expand their market reach and attract new business opportunities, identity management ( specifically SSO, User provisioning and Management) has evolved as an enabling technology to mitigate risks and improve operational efficiency. As the shift to cloud-based services increases, identity management capabilities can be delivered as hosted services to help drive more operational efficiency and to improve business agility. A Fortune 50 Giant designed and developed a Cloud based Identity Management Solution and proposed an opportunity to existing and prospective SaaS Vendors to have a tie up with its product to test and make the product live as a full-fledged Single Sign-on Solution. SecureKloud being a Cloud based Identity Services company accepted to fulfill the Client requirement.
This company opted for SecureKloud, the most preferred choice, because SecureKloud is a State of the Art Solution provider that practiced Scrum Methodology. SecureKloud never hesitated to take up any ad-hoc requirements because of their industry specific team of experts who are ready to offer 24/7 development support system. SecureKloud thus pitched in to help the client by finding their Pain Points & AS-IS Scenarios. Later SecureKloud worked extensively to collaborate with their company and its respective SAAS Vendors to:
- Establish formal Business Relationship with SaaS Vendors
- Pre-qualify SaaS Vendor
- Configure SaaS Application for Partner company on Identity Cloud Service SAML SSO integration, Test and Certify
- Prepare IDP Metadata
- Establish a stringent QA process
- Complete Documentation
a. Confirmance and interoperability test report
b. SAML SSO Technical documentation
c. A video explaining the steps involved in the integration
d. Provide metadata configuration and mapping attributes details - Build Monitoring Tool
- Adopt Quality Assurance with 2 level Testings (Manual & Automation)
- Configure, integrate, troubleshoot, monitor and produce reports using SecureKloud MISPTM tool.
Thus, SecureKloud enabled this Fortune 50 Biggie to attain the following business benefits:
- Refinement of user self-service functionalities
- Activation users & groups and linking SaaS applications to the user accounts in the cloud
- Enablement of SSO to these SaaS Apps & enable user access via SAML2.0
- Usage of OAuth 2.0 to authorize changes to configuration.
- Adoption & Testing of different methods of SSO for the same SaaS App
- Documentation of the process in a simplistic manner
- Automation to test & report on all aspects of the integration without human involvement
For more information or details about our Cloud Identity access solution, please write to info@securekloud.com
Author Credit: Ramprasshanth Vishwanathan, Senior Business Analyst- IAM SBU
