Strategic Security: Web Single Sign-On

A growing number of services help users manage multiple SaaS passwords. By Andrew Conry-Murray InformationWeek Inside the firewall, many companies have deployed single sign-on systems to cut down on the hassle of end users having to remember and care for multiple user names and passwords. With SSO, an employee logs in once with a set of corporate credentials (typically a user name and password), and the system automatically signs the person into her other applications. Now, as companies engage with multiple software-as-a-service providers, they're caught trying to solve the same problem all over again. Case in point is Qualys, a vulnerability management vendor which is itself a SaaS provider. The company's employees have access to about a dozen online applications--and also need to handle that many credentials. "It's a pain... [read full story]                    

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