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SharePoint password expiration: that alone is often enough to make chills run down the back of a typical IT administrator. Regardless of the environment, SharePoint remains a popular choice for many organizations. Reasons vary, of course, but the fact remains that SharePoint shows up just about everywhere, even today. That’s not to say that everything with SharePoint is perfect: simply do a...

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Tags: Authentication Methods, Identity Provider, User Experience, password expiration, Password Management, #SharePoint, User Authentication

Society loves prophecy.  Whether it’s used as a justification for acts of good or evil, or even if it’s just a matter of looking at your friend and saying “HA!  I was right!”  Correctly predicting what’s coming is a safe bet in terms of drawing interest, and it is a small wonder that even the biggest tech giants have hopped on that bandwagon.  Of course, prophecy and reality often differ, and...

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Strong online security is the white whale of the digital revolution.  With each step towards the final achievement, development and ingenuity necessitate that the individual takes two steps back.  One step to familiarize oneself with the new technology, and another to determine the best foot forward. It’s an inescapable fact that technology moves faster than most people. 

Rapid evolution isn’t...

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College’s and University’s IT departments are always battling and scraping for the appropriate funds for projects that shape their digital environment. Below is a high-level overview about being better prepared for upcoming projects.

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In today's "always connected" environment, allowing users to access applications from anywhere is a standard mandate. Depending on the application itself, the first step is often finding a cloud-hosted version of the application. In this article, we'll focus on email, of which there is no shortage of cloud offerings. We'll narrow down further on Office 365 which is currently the second most...

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Universal logout is a hot topic today for one simple reason: it is important. Single Sign-On (SSO) has taken over in recent years as a method of reducing login strain and improving security while maintaining usability.  In an age of passwords and data breaches, SSO has always been seen as the next logical step. Now that we’ve taken that step, the question becomes: where do we go from here? The...

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SharePoint password expiration: that alone is often enough to make chills run down the back of a typical IT administrator.  Regardless of the environment, SharePoint remains a popular choice for many organizations. Reasons vary, of course, but the fact remains that SharePoint shows up just about everywhere, even today. That’s not to say that everything with SharePoint is perfect: simply do a...

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Tags: Authentication Methods, Identity Provider, User Experience, password expiration, Password Management, #SharePoint, User Authentication

What is SAML?

The SAML specification is an XML-based framework designed for transporting user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information across the web safely and efficiently.  It has a number of primary usage scenarios, including but not limited to the following:

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Tags: Assertion, Authentication, Authentication Security, Identity Assertion, Identity Federation, Identity Provider, IdP, IdP initiated, OASIS, PortalGuard, SAML Token, XML, Access Control, Principal, SAML, SAML Request, SAML Response, Service Provider, Single Sign-On, SOAP, SP Initiated

Sensitive data makes universities a large target for attacks as we have seen in recent news. Increasing both security and providing ease of use for both faculty and students is imperative. PortalGuard’s SAML Plug-in for BlackBoard uses a standards-based approach so you can achieve seamless integration, eliminate multiple password prompts and roll all applications up under a single point of...

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Tags: ACS, Assertion Consumer Service, Authentication Security, Blackboard, Blackboard Extension, Building Block, Identity Provider, IdP, PortalGuard, Security Assertion Markup Language, SSO, Tokenless Authentication, Authentication Provider, SAML, Service Provider, Single Sign-On, Single Sign-On (SSO), Two-Factor Authentication