Single Sign On

I recently taped a webcast on single sign-on for the folks at SearchSecurity. You can read the description below and pre-register. It goes live on May 31. Check it out. 

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EXPERT WEBCAST: Providing the Key to the Kingdom: Successfully and
Securely Deploying Single Sign-On
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WHEN:    Premieres May 31, 2006 - ON DEMAND
SPEAKER: Mike Rothman, President and Principal Analyst, Security
         Incite
SPONSOR: Imprivata
         http://www.imprivata.com

ABOUT THIS EXPERT WEBCAST:

The number of applications that your company's employees use every
day is staggering, each has its own authentication method, forcing
your users to remember a variety of user IDs and passwords to gain
access to your data. An effective Single Sign-on (SSO) strategy helps
your company's employees remember passwords and saves your company
money by reducing help desk calls.  Attend this webcast and discover:

** New technologies to help your company simplify SSO
** What foundation activities are required to ensure a successful
   SSO deployment
** How SSO can be a first step towards a full Identity Management
   infrastructure
** What changes are required given the advent of "on-demand"
   applications (like Salesforce.com)
** And more

PRE-REGISTER TODAY

SearchSecurity just published a tip from yours truly on how to protect the credential in an SSO environment. There are huge user experience and cost efficiency advantages to SSO, but it does create a single point of "failure" in terms of the credential. You steal that, and you get the keys to the kingdom. I go through some of the common technologies for strong authentication/SSO and a new trend I've dubbed "contextual authentication." Check it out.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid14_gci1186252,00.html