Outlines strategy for modern cloud authentication
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California,
Nov. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Cloud apps are winning the enterprise. 86% of employees in
the CCS Insight Employee Mobile Technology Survey use mobile apps
for work and the majority of these apps are
cloud-based1. To simplify the mobile app user
experience, MobileIron (NASDAQ: MOBL), the stand-alone enterprise
mobility management (EMM) leader, today added the first secure
Single Sign-On (SSO) capability for native mobile apps to
MobileIron Access. Employees no longer need to enter a username or
password to login to their business apps; app developers no longer
need to wrap their mobile apps or make code changes to support SSO;
and IT can ensure that only trusted devices and trusted apps access
the best-of-breed cloud services their employees use.
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Launched in April, MobileIron Access solves the pervasive
app-to-cloud security gap that is widening in the enterprise as
apps become the preferred user experience for cloud services and
move business data to the mobile device. Adding SSO for native
mobile apps to MobileIron Access secures and simplifies the user
experience for cloud services such as Box, Microsoft Office 365,
and Salesforce.
"MobileIron Access is a perfect example of security as an
enabler, not a constraint," said Ojas
Rege, Chief Strategy Officer, MobileIron. "Security should
be invisible to your employees. MobileIron Access now enables IT to
securely deploy the best-of-breed cloud services employees want
with an user experience they love."
For more details, visit the MobileIron's Smart@Work Blog:
Authentication Done Right: Secure Single Sign-On for Mobile
Apps.
MobileIron's strategy for modern cloud
authentication
Enterprise mobility management (EMM)
solutions like MobileIron are a foundational component of modern
enterprise security. Gartner, Inc. says "Through 2020, the combined
security capabilities of mobile platforms and EMM solutions will
meet 80% of enterprise mobile security requirements."2
This modern security model extends to the cloud and requires a
context-sensitive, certificate-based, Identity Provider
(IdP)-neutral approach to cloud authentication:
- Context-sensitive: Only a trusted user on a trusted
device using a trusted app should have access to enterprise data.
Context of use is essential. A device might be trusted today and
jailbroken tomorrow. An app might be unauthorized today and
authorized tomorrow. MobileIron is the system of record for device
and app trust. In April 2016,
MobileIron Access became the first solution to use this full
context to protect cloud services like Box, Microsoft Office 365,
and Salesforce from unauthorized access.
- Certificate-based: Certificates are core to the
architecture of modern authentication. Certificate-based
authentication is more secure and offers a better user experience
than traditional manual-entry passcodes. In July 2013, MobileIron was granted US Patent
8,494,485 for "Management of Certificates for Mobile Devices," and
in September 2016, MobileIron became
the first EMM specialist to launch certificate-based Derived
Credentials support for the emerging standard of post-password
authentication in the U.S. Federal Government.
- IdP-neutral: Companies should be able to choose a
best-of-breed Identity Provider (IdP). MobileIron Access is a
SAML-based solution that supports a company's IdP of choice, such
as Microsoft ADFS, Okta, OneLogin, or Ping Identity.
About MobileIron
MobileIron provides the secure
foundation for companies around the world to transform into Mobile
First organizations. For more information, please
visit www.mobileiron.com.
1 CCS Insight. "2016 Employee Mobile
Technology Survey," by Nicholas
McQuire, October 3rd,
2016.
2 Gartner. "When and How to Go Beyond EMM to
Secure Enterprise Mobility," by Manjunath
Bhat and Dionisio Zumerle, June 10,
2016.