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Easing Password Hell – Key To Living Online Life Safely

Easing Password Hell – Key To Living Online Life Safely

By Ben Kepes on January 4, 2013

As we all use more and more different services and applications in our personal and work lives, password management becomes ever more of an issue. It’s staggering the number of times I’ve had to gently make people aware of the fact that using one simple password for every single service

Posted in Security | Tagged authentication, facebook, google, lastpass, mimecast, oauth, Online service provider, Password management, Random password generator, two factor authentication

OneLogin Launches Cross-Application Search

OneLogin Launches Cross-Application Search

By Ben Kepes on October 18, 2012

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

Posted in Application Software | Tagged authentication, cloud computing, docusign, netsuite, okta, salesforce.com, single sign on, zendesk

VMware Horizon App Manager - A Quick Analysis

VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 17, 2011

Whether you want to call it consumerization of enterprises or democratization of IT, we know that it is happening already and no FUD can stop them anymore. Instead of fighting this process, today’s smart enterprises are embracing them by empowering their users to securely use SaaS and other consumer applications. VMware realized this trend and […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged authentication, Chromebook, cloud applications, google, identity, insights, saas, Security, single sign on, sso, vmware, vmware horizon app manager | 1 Response

OneLogin – Single Sign On for the Enterprise

OneLogin – Single Sign On for the Enterprise

By Ben Kepes on April 6, 2010

After my recent post about LastPass,  Thomas Pedersen, a Zendesk alumnus and founder of SaaS password management tool OneLogin flicked me an email with an invitation to try out their product. OneLogin works via a browser extension which effectively pastes the credentials into your application and logs you in. OneLogin supports all major browsers – […]

Posted in Enterprise, Product reviews | Tagged active directory, authentication, ldap, onelogin, sso, yubikey

WebFinger – Paradigm Changing?

WebFinger – Paradigm Changing?

By Ben Kepes on December 22, 2009

I wrote a post recently about what billFLO is doing for small, Mom and Pop owner of Do it Best stores. This, along with some pretty exciting discussions I’d had both as part of The Small Business Web and privately with some other people, got me thinking about the reality on the ground for SMBs. […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged authentication, federation, oauth, the small business web, webfinger

Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps

Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps

By Ben Kepes on December 7, 2009

I was sitting down for a pleasant morning coffee with the boys from WaveAdept, a New Zealand based company that, among other things, is a reseller for Google apps. Our discussion got on to the barriers to adoption for Google apps and specifically what can be done to increase uptake among small businesses. It’s an […]

Posted in Enterprise, General | Tagged authentication, google apps, migration, single sign on, usability, waveadept

billFLO Bringing Services to the Little Guys

billFLO Bringing Services to the Little Guys

By Ben Kepes on December 3, 2009

I’ve written before about billFLO, a service that enables users to send and receive machine readable invoices straight into their accounting system. They’re announcing this morning a deal which is a great case study to show the value that connected business services can bring to SMBs. It’s a subject I’ve passionately been discussing with a […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged authentication, billflo, do it best, freshbooks, ian sweeney, smb, sme, webfinger | 1 Response

LTech – Holding Hands in the Move to SaaS

LTech – Holding Hands in the Move to SaaS

By Ben Kepes on November 16, 2009

LTech is a company that has a long partnership with Google – originally they were a systems integrator helping organizations deploy Google search appliances. They now focus more on easing the deployment of Google apps into enterprise customers – they’ve been a Google Enterprise Partners since the program was launched. There 20 staff have helped […]

Posted in Enterprise, Product reviews, Security | Tagged authentication, google apps, ldap, ltech, permissioning, power panel, single sign on | 2 Responses

SyferLock Almost Solves The Password Security Problem

SyferLock Almost Solves The Password Security Problem

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 3, 2009

Few months back I was worrying about the readiness of SaaS vendors to protect users from password related attacks, either through phishing or key logging or any of the many different ways in which users’ passwords can be snatched. When thinking about how we use SaaS, I am worried about the risks associated with the […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged authentication, identity, saas, Security, syferlock

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