Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

Security

As an integrated suite, the enterprise social collaboration may have some unique security considerations that need to be addressed. Some of the more prevalent of these are as follows.

Authentication to the service is needed to ensure that only authorized users have access to data, tools, and applications, while simultaneously blocking unauthorized access. Synchronizing enterprise user directories is beneficial in extending the on-premises environment to the cloud. The enterprise social services facilitate this by providing the following:

• On-/off-boarding of users
• User bulk provisioning and updates
• Provisioning of user through an administrative tool

Federated Identity Management uses Single Sign-On (SSO) to protect the transfer ...