Apps & Mashups for System Administrators
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You need to ensure your enterprise is safe in the ‘Web 2.0’ world
Only you can ensure that your organization is safe. As an IT Administrator entrusted with the critical task of ensuring that your organization’s use of data is safe, secure, compliant and auditable, you have an important responsibility. And as more do-it-yourself, collaborative ‘SaaS’ and ‘Web 2.0’ solutions continue to enter your enterprise (often through the backdoor), your data security and governance job gets more difficult all the time.
As the security and governance manager of your organization’s data, you need to take a proactive approach that retains the collaborative, user-driven qualities that your users have come to expect while also conforming to your data security and governance policies.
Apps can be safe, secure information solutions
JackBe’s Enterprise App Store enables your developers and your tech-savvy business users to rapidly find, build, customize and share Apps. These Apps can easily and securely incorporate and mashup timely and relevant data from disparate information assets, and seamlessly run on multiple enterprise and mobile destinations. Ultimately, this supports your decision-makers with information that is relevant and contextual while doing it in a safe and manageable way:
- Enterprise Apps can be 'plugged in' to your existing security infrastructure. Like every good enterprise-grade technology, mashup-driven Apps can be connected into your existing identity management system. What IT professional wants to bring in a product which creates yet another credential repository? None. Apps can be part of seamless Single-Sign On (SSO), making use of LDAP, Active Directory, PKI or even a proprietary authentication system.
- Enterprise Apps can access mashup data sources while conforming to their native security mechanisms. Enterprise Apps can simply adhere to the security models of the systems they are mashing, connecting to disparate security schemes like NTLM, Basic Auth, One-way SSL, Mutual SSL, WS-Security and even proprietary mechanisms.
- Enterprise Apps can propagate user credentials to source systems both inside and outside your firewall. Of course you want the same user's credentials to be used for authentication to all of the mashup data sources. Whatever the requirement of the mashup data sources the EMP must propagate the required credentials without a barrage of login requests to the user executing the mashup.
Ultimately, Enterprise Apps give your enterprise new insights and enable better decisions through personalized access to the right, real-time information for the specific problem at hand without the complexities, costs and risks of traditional information integration projects. And you can do it in a secured and governed manner.
You can find more whitepapers, articles, videos and live demos on our News, Videos, and Demos pages. And, of course, you can always bring your enterprise mashup questions, requests, and suggestions to JackBe via Twitter, Facebook, our blogs, or a direct email. We’re looking’ forward to hearing from you!