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The Benefits of Direct LDAP/MFA Integration
Many MFA tools require a proxy or middleware to authenticate to the LDAP directory. Learn the benefits of skipping the connector for direct authentication.
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Crash Course: What Is Identity Management?
Identity Management is verifying and permissioning users, and it's the secret weapon against cyber attacks. Learn why you need it.
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What Is Active Directory Federation Services?
AD FS is used to authenticate users to applications incompatible with Active Directory (AD), but it's not the only solution.
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What is IAM? (Identity and Access Management)
Identity and access management, or IAM, used to be much simpler. But when the cloud came along, so did a number of acronyms and complexities. What is IAM today?
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How Single Sign-On (SSO) Authentication Works
Single sign-on (SSO) authentication works through the use of different protocols depending on the type of resource you need to access.
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SSO Isn’t Identity Management
Single sign-on (SSO) has been a popular tool since the mid 2000s, but SSO is not complete identity and access management (IAM). Learn why.
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JumpCloud is an Official IdP for AWS SSO
JumpCloud is an official Identity Provider (IdP) for AWS SSO identity management via our SCIM integration.
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What is True Single Sign-On (SSO)?
True SSO should describe exactly what the name implies – the ability to leverage a single set of credentials to sign on to various resources.
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Manage MySQL and Related Database Servers with LDAP
Using JumpCloud's Cloud LDAP, admins can authenticate users to their MySQL databases from the cloud with simplicity.
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Mitigating Hardware-Based Attacks
Hardware-based attacks are becoming more commonplace, can bypass most authentication and endpoint security systems.
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How to Prevent Phishing Damage Using SSO, MFA, and Policies
Phishing is incredibly common and tricky. Learn how to prevent phishing damage by implementing SSO, MFA, and organization-wide policies.
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Single Sign-On (SSO) vs Active Directory (AD)
As startups consider identity management, there are certainly questions to consider. Often, organizations ask about SSO vs AD.
