Authenticating Users for Business Apps through Social Networks – Reasonable or Contradictory?

16.05.2013 12:20-12:40

Authenticating Users for Business Apps through Social Networks – Reasonable or Contradictory?

Most businesses have an Internet presence and require customers to have an account to access the resources they provide on the Internet. For a customer this means you have multiple accounts and multiple passwords you must remember to access the resources you want on the Internet.

What should a solution look like that allows customers to use existing Internet account IDs and passwords to gain access to a new Internet site?

How can you configure multiple identity sources that customers can use to authenticate to your business’s Internet site?

What does it mean for your security and access policies to utilize Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live as an identity source? What precautions should you take and how does it work?
Join us for a lively discussion on utilizing Social Networks and understand the pros and cons.