Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Microsoft Office 365 Receives Extended Cloud Support From Xceedium

The leading provider of privileged identity management for the hybrid-cloud, revealed its flagship product Xsuite. This amazing product will include the complete protection for Microsoft online services. When this extension is installed, Xsuite now protects and audits all classified and privileged access to Microsoft online services.

This increased security for Microsoft online services actually complements Xsuite's present hybrid-cloud security and compliance capabilities. Xsuite provides privileged access and grants secure single sign-on to web applications and IT infrastructure working on the premises or in the cloud. This helps organisations to apply detailed access controls and for monitoring, recording and auditing everything the privileged users do, no matter where the systems are present.

The best thing here is the combination of comprehensive set of privileged user controls along with unified policy management. This clearly allows organizations to smoothly and continuously manage and enforce policy. Xsuite helps federal government as well as commercial customers to adhere to the new ‘insider threat’ requirements found in security and privacy mandates such as FISMA, PCI-DSS, and NERC-CIP.

  • Here are some of the important features of Xsuite for Microsoft Online Services
  • There is a Multi-factor authentication that allows access to all Microsoft online services
  • There is a logical (PIV/CAC) smartcard access for federal agency systems
  • For administrative access to Microsoft online, there is Separation of duties
  • There is single sign-on to Microsoft online services. For this purpose, federated Active is used.
  • There is SSO access from multiple clients (Windows, Mac, Unix) 
  • There is also recording of privileged user sessions, which can be used for comprehensive audits and can also be used to simplify compliance with Federal Government Continuous Monitoring mandates 

According to Susie Adams, CTO, Microsoft Federal, “Microsoft's Federal government customers continue to extend their enterprises into the cloud, taking advantage of the cost savings, productivity and flexibility presented by Office 365 and our other online services. Working with partners like Xceedium will help to ensure that there are solutions like Xsuite for customers who seek to enable a consistent user experience across all applications in a hybrid-cloud environment."

Glenn Hazard, Chief Executive Officer, Xceedium says, “Since our initial push into the cloud over two years ago, we continue to address our customer's rapidly evolving cloud security requirements. We are delighted to be working with Microsoft to extend Xsuite's federated identity and privileged user security capabilities to Microsoft online services. This announcement underpins our commitment to delivering a 'Next Generation' privileged identity management platform addressing our customers' security and compliance needs as they transition to new hybrid-cloud enterprises."

For more information regarding the above topic or about the Microsoft Office help chat support, there is information available online. Microsoft Office help chat support can be obtained from the official website.

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