Visual Guard for PB Key Features
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Use Active Directory for Application Security
 

You need to create an Access Control system in your PowerBuilder applications.
Your organization already manages Active Directory Accounts.
So you wonder if you can re-use AD accounts for the authentication phase, and add a permissions system.

This would imply significant development.

First you would have to develop, implement and maintain a permission system. Then you would have to code in order to manage the integration of Active Directory into your system.

Or you could use Visual Guard for PowerBuilder: it provides a ready-to-use solution for authentication, permissions and audit. You can reuse Active Directory authentication to enter PowerBuilder applications and then use Visual Guard permission features to create, modify and manage permissions.

Visual Guard offers powerful features such as:
* Defining permissions for each account (what they can do in the application)
* Keeping track of sensitive transactions (Auditing - who did what?)
* Single Sign-on (users do not enter credentials to access each application)
* Mixed-mode authentication: combine AD accounts with application accounts
* and much more...

Use Active Directory for user Authentication

With Visual Guard PowerBuilder, you can use Active Directory accounts to authenticate users and define which account can access each PowerBuilder application.

When a user tries to enter the application, Visual Guard asks for his credentials, checks the user identity with Active Directory and lets the user access the application if he was authorized to.

Grant profiles and permissions to Active Directory accounts

With Visual Guard PowerBuilder, you can grant profiles and permissions to AD accounts.
As a result, you define what each user can do within the application (viewing or modifying confidential information, accessing a form, etc.).
Because Visual Guard is a non-intrusive solution, you do not write code in your application to define such profile and permissions.
You would do that in a few clicks within Visual Guard Administration console.

Implement Single Sign-on

Visual Guard PowerBuilder offers a ready-to-use Single Sign-on solution:
* The user provides his credentials when starting a Windows Session (as usual).
* When the user opens a PowerBuilder application, Visual Guard uses the current Windows Account to identify the user and verifies if he can access to this application.
* If so, Visual Guard loads the user permissions and dynamically adjusts the application to these permissions.

Manage you own user accounts

Depending on your architecture, you may NOT want to use Active Directory accounts. Visual Guard can manage its own user accounts (created and stored within Visual Guard).

Mixed mode authentication? No problem

Visual Guard allows you to implement mixed mode authentication:
In some cases, you need to have mixed mode Authentication. For example both the employees and the customers access your applications. Visual Guard allows you to manage mixed mode authentication. You will use Active Directory/Windows accounts to authenticate Employees, and application accounts to authenticate customers

Multi-user desktop?

Another possibility is to implement Single Sign-On on the desktops of your end users, and to have one or a few desktops available to everyone. On these particular machines, you want to stop Single Sign-on process and to have everyone entering his/her credentials to access the applications. Visual Guard PowerBuilder enables you to have this kind of “kiosk” desktop, even if you use Single Sign-on on all other machines.


 

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