ARCON avails a hands-down single sign-on system that allows you to log into multiple applications using a single login credential. When the user logs in via SSO on their device for the first time, the SSO authenticates the user once. As soon as the SSO shows the login process, it is then translated, and the authentication parameters are stored successfully. So, the next time you try to log in to the systems, SSO will share the credentials and make the process a seamless experience. This is done as per the authentication mechanism that the application supports. 

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What is SSO?

ARCON SSO is an access management capability analyzer that comes with remembering one credential. So, no matter how many platforms you use on your phone, logging into all of them becomes as easy as it gets. Now, you do not have to worry about creating different passwords and IDs for all. So, it is even better to manage security and user experience. 

With SSO, you can log into it using one credential, as discussed above. So, when you are logged in, every application will be available to see on the portal systematically for you. Conclusively, it helps to reduce the risks of misuse of any application to a considerable extent. Here are some critical features of ARCON SSO that give a deeper insight. 

Key Features That Promote Security and User Experience

1. Password Management 

Password management is an integral method to ensure Security and prevent service disruptions. So, when you are configuring the application solutions, it is wise to set a complex password. This will reduce the chances of hacking or phishing on your device to a considerable extent. One can update the password either manually or rotate as per the defined policy. With this at hand, you will be able to encourage comprehensive synchronization that can occur in almost all networks around you. 

2. Self Service Portal 

If the user has not been allotted a specific application, they may raise a request for it. The entire idea of a self-service portal is based around it. So, once the request is approved, the application will become a part of the already-existing portal in no time. 

3. Seamless Integration 

Using the internet and its widespread features comes with an added risk of security all the time. As such, it becomes integral to mitigate them at every step of the way. ARCON SSO allows seamless integrations using app web browsers that foster security and reduce the risks exponentially. This process also improves the visibility of the user. As such, the SSO can be used for browser applications without enough hassle. 

4. Access Control 

Unauthorized changes in your device can raise concerns at times. Since it may question your overall device security, it is best to abstain from it as far as possible. Access Control encourages this initiative. This is a critical security feature that wards off any unauthorized changes that occur on your device. So, it helps manage the entire access system by enabling the user login time, disabling it and even disabling or enabling the dual authentication factor in need.

5. Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

 Automation is the need of the hour. It improves a seamless experience and paves the way for accuracy and efficiency in no time. This is the process that helps automate the usual tasks people perform. As such, the user can work at ease for as long as they want and encourage a strong user experience. This also helps foster productivity as it is less time and energy-consuming. In turn, people can focus on more critical tasks at once. What is most intriguing about using this facility is that you can personalize your steps for any SSO activity you perform using this feature.

6. Multi-factor Authentication 

Well-defined identity references can play a pivotal role in accessing a range of apps. Every user access demands this at all times. When you use Arcon’s multi-factor authentication, you can avail yourself of its sound validation mechanism too. It can be highly secure for you in the long run. 

7. Just-In-Time Access 

If you want to utilize time-based access, this app can come in handy for you. It can be helpful for all types of users, whether customer or third-party vendors. As soon as the time that was allocated to the user is up, each right and access is revoked. So, no manual intervention is involved in this process. 

8. User Provisioning and Deprovisioning 

Arcon’s SSO does not just offer the usual provision and deprovision functions. It may also come in handy for provisioning and deprovisioning from within the apps too. As such, you can control this more comprehensively.

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How does SSO offer a Sound User Experience?

Once ARCON SSO is deployed, you are likely to get your hands on many potential benefits that will offer credibility and scalability like never before. Take a look below. 

1. Less Time Consumption

As the login credentials of ARCON SSO provide unique features like robotic process automation, the process becomes less time-consuming. Also, all the applications can be logged into using a single credential to complete this process before time. 

2. Promotes Security

The stronger your password, the better security your device can offer. ARCON SSO offers paramount Security that makes sure the user remains safe every step of the way. So, the ability to generate strong passwords becomes possible with this technology at hand. 

3. Ease Of Operation 

We have already discussed how this SSO helps you to use a single credential for all types of applications. As such, it not only helps save ample time but also eases your daily operation to provide a seamless experience in need. 

4. Toggle Functionality 

Sometimes the organization may be using SSO, while other times, they may switch to PAM. As such, you must be prepared to make the switch between both worlds as and when required. With ARCON SSO, this becomes a cakewalk. 

5. Speedy Functions 

Speed functions can instantly amp up your productivity at work. As such, Arcon’s SSO can be your best friend. Enjoy real-time speed functions as it promotes rapid development and releases cycles for your convenience. 

The Bottom Line 

ARCON offers best-in-class SSO to ease your login processes. With this, it is not just easy, efficient and flexible but also a highly secure process to scout for. So, why keep waiting? Make the most of ARCON SSO to improve your user experience and credential system forever. Get started today!

That means, the end-users require multiple credentials to access the multiple applications. Simple? Not at all. It’s a nightmare both from IT administrators and end-users’ point of view. 

The IT helpdesk administrators don’t want to spend too much time on creating credentials, nor they want to do provisioning for too many privileged users, hence credentials. It’s a huge risk. Creating too many privilege entitlements is against the best practices in privilege account management. 

Likewise, the end-users will find it difficult to remember multiple login passwords. Different IT tasks on various applications are done at different hours of the day. So every time the end-user has to log on, she will have to waste time on the validation process while accessing a new application.

To eliminate the security challenge posed by using multiple access credentials for multiple end-users, and IT administrative ineffectiveness, enterprises find merit in assigning Single-sign-on (SSO) to end-users. The technology offers one-time secure administrative access to multiple technology platforms. 

More on Single-Sign-On (SSO)

Single-Sign-On (SSO) is nothing but a validation permit that is given to an end-user to use a single login credential for multiple applications. As per the roles and responsibilities of the end-users, the IT administrators can assign SSO to the end-users. It ensures that they have a limited-period one-time access to applications that are required by the end-users to perform specific tasks. Once the task is completed, the access rights get expired automatically. It secures the IT assets of any organization from any unauthorized and unnecessary access to the elevated accounts without the need of sharing the privileged credentials.

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SSO is very relevant in the remote work environment

Protecting data at Work- From-Home (WFH) conditions is always a little more challenging for any enterprise. In the last one year, the global pandemic has pushed organizations to adopt remote work culture to ensure uninterrupted business processes. Thousands of end-users access critical information on a daily basis. Any malefactor in the IT ecosystem can wreak havoc on enterprise systems by misusing privileged credentials. The challenge of safeguarding enterprise data might intensify if organizations allow all-time access to the business-critical applications and systems through shared credentials. In this scenario, Single-Sign-On can mitigate the risk of unauthorized access by offering temporary access to the end-users without sharing the credentials.

Why ARCON Single-Sign-On?

ARCON | Single-sign-on, which also comes integrated with our enterprise-class ARCON | PAM, ARCON | PAM SaaS and ARCON | PAM Lite is a powerful tool to ensure legitimate access to critical applications. 

Here are some of the key features of ARCON | SSO:

• It centrally manages the end-users access to all IT resources such as business applications, web applications, and cloud applications 

• It can seamlessly integrate with various authentication repositories like Microsoft Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and other identity providers

• It supports standard identity protocols such as OpenID Connect, OAuth, and Security Assertion MarkUp Language (SAML)

• It automates user provisioning or De-provisioning and reduces the administrative cost involved in managing these end-users

• It helps to meet compliance, regulations and IT standards 

• It ensures time-based access on all platforms even at a granular level

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Conclusion

ARCON | SSO helps the enterprise to mitigate some of the critical access control issues associated with too many end-users and too many applications. The solution offers seamless identification and authorization to protect applications. It is a superb and effective solution to control risks and administrative challenges arising from WFH culture.

in 2020. Cybersecurity has become very important as the country’s digitalisation pace has necessitated the need to secure information assets. A compromise of credentials, or an illegitimate access to privileged accounts can inflict heavy financial losses (data breach) to organizations, which could have strong repercussions on the economy. Therefore the economic well-being of any country is directly proportional to cyber security preparedness.

ARCON is a well-known brand in the country since the last three years with some of the big names from the BFSI segment deploying our enterprise-class solutions. Due to the pandemic and ongoing travel restrictions, ARCON could not hold its annual security conference. However, ARCON along with its local partner conducted an exclusive webinar targeting some of the well-known organizations in the nation. The idea was to highlight the fact that how robust cybersecurity can boost an economy.

Indeed, cyber crime/incidents can have an alarming impact on the global economy. In the Indian subcontinent, almost $215 billion has been lost in 2018 which is almost 1.3% of the entire GDP of SouthEast Asia. By now, it would have soar beyond imagination. It is estimated that by 2021, cyber crime will cost the world in excess of $6 trillion annually.

To discuss this situation, ARCON, in an exclusive webinar organized by its partner on 10th November 2020, delivered the views on “Cybersecurity: An Economy Booster”. Mr. Yahya Khan represented ARCON in the webinar and he vividly explained how ARCON solutions are reinforcing adequate security measures for large and mid-scale enterprises to manage and control information security. The broader agenda of the session included:

• How should we secure human access to enterprise digital assets
• How should we manage and control the privileged accounts of an enterprise
• How should we mitigate threats arising from unmonitored endpoints
• How should we ensure a robust access control system in the enterprise network

To start the session, Mr. Khan drew a simple analogy of ‘Who watches the Watchman’ as in most cases people have the prima facie of ARCON solutions as just a cybersecurity solution. However, the pattern of cyber threats have come a long way and ARCON opines that IT operations are no more safe with just risk-preventive solutions. Instead, the risks need to be predicted well in advance. Some of the key takeaways from the session are as follows:

• The access control mechanism is complicated for any organization. IT infra includes operating systems, network, databases, critical devices and business applications. Absence of policies around people and policies could create IT chaos resulting in data breach. ARCON | PAM with the help of granular control features over admins and privileged users protects the systems and applications from unauthorized access and unintentional errors. It controls the privileged users seamlessly with a rule and role-based centralized policy.

• With Single-Sign-On (SSO) of ARCON | PAM, the IT security team can have one-time administrative access to a different category of systems and devices without entering the login credentials. In a larger IT infrastructure, the challenges of multiple administrators, multiple user-ids, multiple passwords and multiple accesses are resolved by SSO feature.

• Regarding managing the privileged passwords, organizations stumble a lot while storing the passwords manually. ARCON | PAM with its robust password vault helps organizations to store passwords in a highly secure electronic vault. Above all, this engine frequently rotates and randomizes the dynamic passwords to prevent any unauthorized access in the critical systems.

• Today, organizations are in dire need of monitoring the day to day IT activities seamlessly. ARCON | PAM with its real-time session monitoring helps organizations to detect and identify any suspicious elements in the network and flags off immediately to the administrator. In addition, the overall activities can be reviewed in a live dashboard which helps the risk management team to spot the anomaly with ease.

• Regular IT audits have become must in most of the organizations today. Based on the user activity reports, the organizations take crucial steps to ensure end-to-end security in the IT ecosystem. ARCON | PAM offers a provision of generating detailed reports of all the activities done by the users on a given date and time. This report is even customizable as per role of the users, department and predefined time.

• Very often organizations manage the passwords of business-critical applications through a single terminal in the IT infrastructure. ARCON’s App to App Password Management is an automated password change process which helps to manage and synchronize the entire process with the required details of the servers, the IP addresses and thereby prevents cyber disruptions.

• Misuse of the endpoint privileges is one of the biggest sources of data theft. Poor endpoint management leads to both data theft and ambiguity over access to business-critical applications. ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) bridges the security gap between unmanaged endpoints and IT administrators in an enterprise network by allowing endpoint privileges to the authorized users exclusively. It even helps the risk management team to segment the users based on their roles and responsibilities.

• Today Work From Home (WFH) practice has propelled the urgency to implement secure remote accesses to business-critical applications and systems globally. Organizations require a robust IT security mechanism to manage, control, monitor remote access and the IT risk management team is more agile in establishing trustworthiness. helps the administrators to provide safe and seamless desktop support for the employees working remotely.

• Lastly, ARCON | PAM is the epitome of administrative ease when it comes to managing privileged accounts in organizations’ network periphery. Factors like high performance, high scalability, secure elevation, one admin console for admin access and smooth deployment process offers a competitive advantage to ARCON.

Before drawing the conclusion, Mr. Khan answered all the questions asked by the attendees related to the features of ARCON | PAM solution. The ease of deployment and administrative ease, security benefits, and the value for money were discussed with lucidity. Considering the economic growth and fast pace of digitalisation, Bangladesh even in this pandemic scenario, is allocating a handsome budget for secure IT infrastructure. This exclusive webinar emphasized the importance of robust cybersecurity controls to boost the economy.

ARCON is a leading enterprise risk control solutions provider, specializing in risk-predictive technologies. ARCON | User Behaviour Analytics enables to monitor end-user activities in real time. ARCON | Privileged Access Management reinforces access control and mitigates data breach threats. ARCON | Secure Compliance Management is a vulnerability assessment tool.