StrongNet™

How can an organization provide secure access to cloud-based sensitive data from unmanaged mobile devices? The first step is to implement strong authentication bound to the organization’s existing account store, such as Active Directory. In order to expose the Active Directory account store to cloud-hosted and third-party applications, it is usually necessary to deploy a federation solution like Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). Some sample scenarios include federated authentication with Microsoft Office 365, cloud-hosted SharePoint portals, and custom applications that must authenticate users from multiple account stores. Underlying technologies used in those scenarios include the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Simple Web Tokens (SWT). Both approaches allow opening authorization and authentication between domains.

Unfortunately, neither SAML nor SWT support is natively available on the common smartphone platforms. That’s why JW Secure has created StrongNet, a convenient software library that implements SAML and SWT support on the Android and Windows Phone platforms. StrongNet provides complete SAML and SWT implementations in Java for Android and in .NET for Windows Phone. JW Secure offers both binary and source code licensing options. For more information on StrongNet, or to request a free assessment of your line of business application security needs, please contact us at sales@jwsecure.com.

The second part of the ideal solution for mobile cloud data access is data encryption, which you can add through JW Secure’s SecurEntity™ technology.