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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.
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What Role Does Multi-Factor Authentication Play in a Zero Trust Security Model?
Learn why multi-factor authentication is a pillar of Zero Trust and how to leverage it in your organization.
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How to Test SAML and Configure SSO Using a Free-to-Use Application
The days where employees sat at workstations and interacted exclusively with native applications are gone but not forgotten: the legacy […]
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How Effective is Multi-Factor Authentication at Securing an Organization?
Multi-factor authentication is now considered an essential security measure for organizations, but how effective is MFA?
