AVG Launches Secure Sign-On for Service Providers
AVG Technologies Launches Secure Sign-On for Service Providers and Small Businesses
AVG Business SSO
puts IT providers and business owners securely back in
control of workers’ mobile devices and their remote
applications
AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG), the online security company for 197 million active users, today announced the immediate availability of AVG Business Secure Sign-On (SSO). Underpinned by technology from identity management leader, Centrify, AVG Business SSO works to provide AVG partners and business owners with a simple way to control company data on employees’ mobile devices and cloud applications.
AVG Business SSO allows AVG partners to offer much needed help to those small business customers who are struggling with the issues of bring your own device (BYOD) and password management. Now partners can roll out services that give their customers simple, secure management of their users’ mobile device data and applications in a matter of a few clicks.
“Mass ownership of personal mobile devices, the adoption of popular consumer cloud services like Skype and Dropbox for business purposes and the impact of the Internet of Things have been the catalysts for true ‘business without walls’,” said Mike Foreman, General Manager, AVG Business. “Business in a fully connected environment puts smaller firms at risk of data breaches. AVG Business SSO for the first time makes it simple for businesses without big budgets or in-house IT staff to keep company confidential data safe, private and within their control, even while it is shared with employee-owned mobile devices and externally hosted cloud services.”
Key features of AVG Business SSO are:
• Centralised
control of cloud and mobile apps/data for one-click
authentication of end-user mobile devices –
single secure sign-on with multi-factor authentication (MFA)
for any device unifies identity and mobile
device management to give simplified control of mobile
data
•
• Affordable identity policy,
verification and mobile device management service -
including via Active
Directory
•
• Efficient password
management - eliminates risk from easy-to-remember,
reused and/or improperly managed passwords, improves end
user productivity by eliminating the need to remember
multiple passwords and reduces volume of helpdesk calls
resulting from forgotten
passwords
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• Large range of business
applications - support for more than 2,500 of the
most popular Cloud-based business apps including Office 365,
Salesforce, Webex, Facebook, LinkedIn and many more helping
IT providers monetise mobile and cloud management
services.
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• Integration with AVG
Business Managed Workplace - provides a single,
secure access layer to AVG’s entire security and remote
monitoring and management (RMM) services
portfolio.
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“In partnership with Centrify, AVG’s Secure Sign-On supports the most popular operating systems including Windows, Mac, iOS and Android in recognition of the multi-device world that small businesses have embraced today,” said Shreyas Sadalgi, Centrify’s SVP of Business Development. “Our easy-to-use cloud-based authentication and mobile device management service, saves businesses time logging in and out of applications, cuts down on ‘shadow-IT’ and ensures regulatory compliance.”
Secure Sign-On capability is the most
significant of several new additions to the AVG Business
portfolio being released today. From today AVG Business
CloudCare features several updates designed to make
partners’ lives even easier. These include a new customer
drop-down box that allows IT providers to adjust the
settings of one or all their customers with a single click,
a central, holistic view of sales alerts, support for
HTML-5, and simpler access to customised
reporting.
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About
Centrify
Centrify provides unified identity management across
cloud, mobile and data center environments that delivers
single sign-on (SSO) for users and a simplified identity
infrastructure for IT. Centrify’s unified identity
management software and cloud-based Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) solutions
leverage an organization’s existing identity
infrastructure to enable single sign-on, multi-factor
authentication, privileged identity management, auditing for
compliance and enterprise mobility management. Centrify
customers can typically reduce their total cost of identity
management and compliance by more than 50 percent, while
improving business agility and overall security. Centrify
is used by more than 5,000 customers worldwide, including
nearly half of the Fortune 50 and more than 60 Federal
agencies. For more information, please visit http://www.centrify.com/.
About AVG Technologies (NYSE:
AVG)
AVG is the online security company
providing leading software and services to secure devices,
data and people. Over 197 million active users, as of
December 31, 2014, use AVG´s products and services. AVG’s
Consumer portfolio includes internet security, performance
optimization, and personal privacy and identity protection
for mobile devices and desktops. The AVG Business portfolio
- delivered by managed service providers, VARs and resellers
- offers IT administration, control and reporting,
integrated security, and mobile device management that
simplify and protect
businesses.
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