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Visual Guard for PB  Key Features  Authentication

Visual Guard for PB   Key Benefits Key Features Authentication Permissions How Does it Work Permissions Examples See a Demo Try Visual Guard for PB Price Request		User Authentication Manage User accounts Verify the identity of users accessing your application Visual Guard provides two authentication modes: Windows Authentication: integrate with Active Directory and reuse Windows accounts Manage Username/password accounts with Visual Guard You can combine both authentication modes in the same application (mixed mode authentication). [Next: Manage permissions]         Windows Authentication Username/Password Authentication Advanced Windows Authentication Reuse Windows Accounts: Integration with Active Directory Why reuse Windows Accounts? You already have a user list in Active Directory, and want to save the time of creating a whole new user list. You want to manage a single user list in Active Directory and keep maintenance costs low (by not maintaining two or more identical user lists). You want to implement single sign-on in your applications. How to declare Windows Accounts in the Console: Visual Guard provides a ready-to-use search window to find users or groups in Active Directory. When you select Windows Accounts or Groups, Visual Guard PowerBuilder stores the user's security identifier (SID) in the repository. You can declare as many users as you need at a time. Once declared, the user or group appears in Visual Guard user list. You can then assign Visual Guard profiles and permissions to this user. Integration with Active Directory: A key advantage of Visual Guard is the extremely light integration process. For now, it consists in 1 copy/paste operation.         Windows Authentication Username/Password Authentication Advanced Visual Guard Username/Password authentication Why You want to use authentication based on a username/password combination, but don’t want to start from scratch. You need a ready-to-use, comprehensive identity management solution. How Visual Guard PowerBuilder has its own authentication mechanism. A proprietary membership provider allows the creation and management of user accounts and passwords. Credentials are stored in the Visual Guard repository.     Manage users Users are managed form the Identity Management Console. This console has been designed for non technical people. The daily user management tasks can be done by any administrator, security manager, head of department and does not require any technical skills. User accounts are created in a dedicated window. Users are gathered in groups and groups are assigned profiles. This is how you will define which action each user is allowed to perform. Various options are available: You can define how long a user will be in a group: this is very useful in case of temporary workers, trainees, consultants… Two additional tags are available to add any extended attribute to your own convenience.           Windows Authentication Username/Password Authentication Advanced Advanced features Visual Guard offers more than the opportunity to save time and money by not reinventing the wheel. It includes many more features than you expect. Single sign-on Mixed mode authentication Single sign-on The concept of Single sign-on is to ask a user their credentials only once, at the moment they log in to their Windows session. Once authenticated, they will not be asked for their credentials again, and will be able to access any authorized resources. Why? Keep your application safe AND user-friendly. End users will not have to authenticate again and again, and you are assured the highest level of security. How? Visual Guard PowerBuilder supports Windows authentication. It automatically implements the Windows single sign-on process. When a Windows user declared in Visual Guard PowerBuilder opens an application, his SID is identified. Visual Guard retrieves and applies his profiles and permissions. Mixed mode authentication Visual Guard can manage several authentication modes for a given application. The same application can be accessed by users authenticating against either Active Directory or Visual Guard. For example a website accessed by employees (authenticated against AD) and customers (authenticated against VG). Previous: What is Visual Guard? Next: Permissions Take the tour... Try Visual Guard now!       Index   What is Visual Guard? Authentication Permissions How does it work? Examples of Modifications Technical specifications       Active Directory   Re-use AD accounts for authentication   more information   Trial Version   Try Visual Guard! : - For PowerBuilder - For .NET