Understanding Single Sign-On for UNIX/Linux-based Web Applications

"Enterprise single sign-on" brings to mind complex and expensive IT projects that have such a bad reputation that any SSO project becomes hard to sell internally. But most of your SSO pain probably centers on a few business-critical internal applications. End-users are often angry about the multiple accounts and passwords they have to manage just to accomplish day-to-day tasks, such as accessing the corporate sales intranet or working in SAP. And helpdesk personnel are weary of doing constant password resets for those angry users.

But what if we could show you how to enable single sign-on through users' existing Windows-based credentials — without the need for infrastructure changes and with little or no changes to the web apps themselves? In this free webinar, security expert Professor John Walker of ISACA and Secure-Bastion discusses the security benefits and risks of SSO and sets out best practices for implementation. And Corey Williams of Centrify discusses the most common SSO design patterns to help you identify intranet, extranet, SAP and other applications that can be quickly integrated with Active Directory. This solution works for:

• Any web application running on Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere or JBoss
• Intranet applications leveraging Windows Kerberos and LDAP, and extranet apps leveraging Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services
• SAP ABAP Server 4+ leveraging GSS-API V2
• Other Java and C++ apps leveraging PAM and a simple SDK

Featured speakers:

Professor John Walker FBCS CISM CITP MFSSoc A.IISP, Member ISACA Security Advisory Group, CTO Secure-Bastion John served in the Royal Air Force in the very early days of computer security as an investigator. He has previously worked for Logica, BAe, the BAA, the Police, local authorities, the UK government, the House of Lords, to mention but a few. Today he holds the appointment of visiting professor at a university in the faculty of computing and informatics, and is managing director of Secure-Bastion Limited. John is a published author, with articles in Information Age, CONSPECTUS, Consultants Advisory, Computer Weekly, Computing, NT Magazine, Information Security (US), Elsevier (Computer Science), and Management Consultant.

Corey Williams Centrify Director of Product Management As Director of Product Management, Corey oversees the strategic vision, tactical roadmap and company-wide go-to-market plan for Centrify DirectControl for Applications products. Corey is a veteran technology marketer, with more than 15 years' enterprise software marketing experience. He has held senior sales, marketing and product management positions at Syndera, webMethods, Active Software and Hewlett Packard. Corey holds undergraduate degrees in Math and Computer Science as well as an MS in Engineering and an MBA.