Enable and expand new business services by providing the right information at the right time to the right people to improve digital identity management.
The onslaught of digital business dictates the need for better, more secure digital identity and access management. But how do organizations do that when enterprise security perimeters are constantly shifting?
Employees expect immediate access to information across multiple channels. Organizations demand protection against data loss or privacy exposure, while satisfying the requirements of regulators. Everyone wants a positive experience using a secure, unified solution.
To remain competitive in today’s complex landscape, organizations must control authentication and authorization using an agile business model that establishes faster, more effective business processes while meeting stringent regulatory requirements. They need methods to rapidly respond to user registration, social logins and profile requests that also effectively manage access, secure workplace applications and maintain availability of services. And, organizations need an authentication and authorization process that facilitates collaboration and cultural change rather than creating barriers. Taken together, that’s no small order.
Drive authentication and authorization across enterprise boundaries
DXC Technology helps companies like yours reduce risk and avoid financial loss that comes with open, integrated enterprises.
DXC Authentication Broker is a scalable, cloud-based managed identity solution that eliminates on-premises software deployment, management and maintenance so your organization can:
- Maximize digital identity control. Flexible cloud services maximize control of internal and external digital identities.
- Easily collaborate. Single authentication and authorization allows identity reuse, which enables easier and more secure collaboration between employees and peers in industry networks.
- Adopt smarter ways to work. Improved interactions with freelancers, mobile workers and others support today’s work models.
- Control partner access. Controlled but flexible access to your systems ensures business partners’ compliant use.
- Seamlessly integrate identity types. Extended business processes facilitate seamless integration of different digital ID types, such as social logins and self-registrations.
Rapidly realize results
As a highly available service, Authentication Broker offers the features your organization needs to be successful. Authentication Broker’s agile architecture delivers results fast. Offload the burden of running your federated, single sign-on (SSO) solution and get results within weeks, not months. Scalable and modular, this managed service delivers the expertise, technology, infrastructure and support required for seamless, secure access to enterprise applications.
With Authentication Broker, compliance and innovation are not mutually exclusive. Authentication Broker increases application security, reduces password resets and saves time with logging into multiple enterprise applications using SSO software that shortens onboarding times and controls inbound API requests.
At the same time, you boost your organization’s collaboration and communication. Control multiple credentials, such as social logins, multifactor identity tokens and risk-based scoring, using our managed, cloud-based Authentication Broker model, which delivers cloud-directory, identity broker services and self-registration of user profiles.
Harness the power of technology
With Authentication Broker, DXC security experts integrate, manage and monitor connections to your desired applications using the following standard technology components, which drive authentication and authorization across the cloud:
- Access management controls access profiles and identifies provider functionality.
- Digital identity gateway authorizes simple and advanced policies.
- Directory services deliver X.500 compliance with LDAP requirements.
- Amazon Web Services platform allows regional management, support and maintenance.
Optional components further strengthen enterprise perimeters. Two factor, multifactor and Advanced Authentication grants access using one-time passwords, push notifications and risk-based scoring.
As an added measure, User Managed Access verifies users’ consent to send identity data to others. Authentication Broker also helps you increase security and convenience while lowering support requirements. User Provisioning and Life-Cycle Management
allow self-registration of users and credentials.
Boost the agility of your business
Access management and federation are moving toward strategic infrastructure elements that enable business agility. Authentication Broker offers an approach and feature set that will improve your organization’s security posture while increasing your agility and convenience for users.
Its self-service functionality increases your operational efficiency by decreasing administrative duties, reducing user management and onboarding costs and improving workforce productivity. In addition, improved usability via single authentication simplifies the user experience and strengthens security by maintaining one strong, complex credential for multiple applications.
Authentication Broker optimizes security through strong, adaptive authentication. It protects applications from compromise or misuse by enforcing access policies on API requests using methods such as IP address range, user roles and scripted policies. You’ll also realize enhanced compliance with cohesive reporting that consolidates application use.
Take the next step
DXC offers you in-depth knowledge about digital identity and access management solutions. Our experienced advisors can recommend the best path forward for your organization.
Contact us to learn more about DXC Authentication Broker.