SSOGEN Assists Major International University Meet the Challenge of COVID-19 Remote Access Shift to Support New Study From Home Curriculum
SSOGEN Corporation, a Gold level member of Oracle Partner Network, announced it implemented an SSO security upgrade solution to assist a large international university with solving a network access security problem that was exacerbated by COVID-19.
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The University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein, South Africa with a student population of 38,000, was forced to shift their educational curriculum from an on-campus classroom teaching format to a remote access online format. This necessitated that all students, professors and staff access university servers remotely. Without a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in place, concerns arose that UFS potentially could be vulnerable to cyber-attacks. SSOgen stepped in, assessed their SSO security requirements and tailored an SSO network solution to protect them and their online community from the threat of network intrusions.
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After a receipt of UFS online inquiry, SSOgen immediately set up a 30 day, free of charge, Proof of Concept (PoC) trial. This allowed UFS to properly evaluate SSOgen Single Sign-on solutions for their PeopleSoft / Microsoft ADFS SSO integration with DUO multi-factor authentication. After a successful PoC trial, UFS made the decision to implement SSOgen SSO Gateway solution. Integration to a live production environment was very quick and easy. UFS was extremely pleased with the performance of SSOgen, the high uptime level they are experiencing and the affordable pay as they go service fee. A solution was in place in less than a month.
Louis Marais, Head of Systems, Platforms & 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 included the latest NextGen SSO technologies.
Louis Marais stated that “SSOgen was very quick to respond, set up a Proof of Concept trial (PoC) within a few days. The actual PoC setup time was accomplished in less than two hours in an online screen sharing session. Testing in a lower non-production and UAT environment were completed over the next few weeks and UFS was able to Go Live to a production environment in three weeks.”
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