SSOGEN Helps Large International University Meet the Challenge of COVID-19 Moving Remote Access to Support New Study From Home Curriculum

ATLANTA, July 29, 2020 / PRNewswire / – SSOGEN Corporation, a Gold level member of the Oracle Partner Network, announced today that it has implemented an SSO security enhancement solution to help a major international university solve the network access security problem that was exacerbated by COVID-19.

Free State University (UFS) in Bloemfontein, South Africa with a student population of 38,000, was forced to shift their educational curriculum from a classroom teaching format on campus to an internet format with remote access. This required all students, professors and staff to access the university servers remotely. Without a Virtual Private Network (VPN), concerns were raised that UFS could potentially be vulnerable to cyber attacks. SSOgen stepped in, assessed their SSO security requirements, and adapted an SSO network solution to protect them and their online community from the threat of network intrusion.

Upon receiving a UFS online request, SSOgen immediately scheduled a 30-day, free, Trial Concept (PoC) trial. This allows UFS to properly evaluate the only SSOgen signature solutions for their PeopleSoft / Microsoft ADFS SSO integration with DUO multi-factor authentication. After a successful PoC trial, UFS decided to implement the SSOgen SSO Gateway solution. Integrating into a live production environment was very quick and easy. UFS was extremely pleased with the performance of SSOgen, the high level of time they are experiencing and the affordable salary while going the service fee. One solution was in place in less than a month.

Louis Marais, Head of Systems, Platforms and Networks at UFS was looking for a PeopleSoft integration solution to accommodate Single Sign-On with Multi-Factor Authentication that was cost effective, easy to install and incorporated most technologies latest NextGen SSO.

Louis Marais stated that “SSOgen was very quick to respond, deploying a Concept Test (PoC) test within a few days. The actual PoC deployment time was realized in less than two hours in an online session for screen sharing. Low ina testing – Production and UAT environment were completed over the next few weeks and UFS was able to go Live in a production environment in three weeks “.

“The SSOgen team was very responsive, the support was and is excellent and worked with UFS to accommodate the unique requirements of our operating environment.”

“UFS was extremely pleased with our experience working with SSOgen and will eventually recommend them to any organization that is looking for a cost effective, easy to install and technically sound solution for SSO integration. All UFS SSO security requirements have been met and we are very happy with the performance of our SSOgen SSO with MFA network solution “.

With the shift to students and home workers accessing their network computers remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, new vulnerabilities are being exploited by Cyber-Attack against exposed RDP.SSOgen internet servers has been at the forefront of this attack on providing organizations with SSO solutions that create these vulnerabilities that are exposed.

If your organization has concerns about network vulnerabilities from increased remote access practices on your system, please contact SSOgen for a free security review.

“We are excited to help businesses during the pandemic. We are committed to making applications accessible from home, without having VPN users with dial-up, and without compromising IT security. Critical applications are now protected by Azure AD Authentication and MFA, which resulted in a greater load reduction on VPN devices and a better user experience, “said Raj Mareddi, CEO, SSOGEN Corporation.

Sean Davis
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