Embrace BYOD Using Vordel Mobile Solutions

With the rise of BYOD, today's enterprises must have pragmatic, secure and scalable strategies to deliver applications across multiple mobile platforms such as iOS, Android and Windows. Vordel API Server, is an API Gateway that enables enterprises to deliver and secure applications in a BYOD world; while keeping pace with all the technology changes. Vordel's technologies are being used by our customers to securely integrate mobile computing with existing business applications and security infrastructure. Here are our most popular mobile solutions:

• Mobile API
• Bring Your Own Device

Extend Enterprise identity and access management for mobile access

Most medium to large organizations have implemented enterprise identity and access management (IAM) platforms from leading vendors such as CA, IBM and Oracle. These IAM platforms control user access to enterprise applications and enable single sign-on. These IAM platform architectures date back over a decade to the “Internet era” and are highly user and browser centric. With the explosion of mobile computing in business and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, enterprise IAM platforms are being asked to control mobile access to enterprise applications and resources. Mobile access adds significant complexity to access management and traditional IAM platforms struggle to keep pace. Vordel API Server extends enterprise IAM platforms with capabilities such as device authentication, identity federation, and contextual authorization.

Extend Authentication Schemes To Mobile Applications And Devices

Mobile access requires more complicated authentication schemes for a number of reasons. Mobile access can span multiple devices for a single user. Mobile access can span multiple applications for a single user, across different mobile platforms. Mobile devices are technically and physically less secure compared to computers, thus cannot be trusted as readily. Consumer facing mobile applications often require no user authentication, instead just application level or device level authentication.

Extend Access Control To APIs with Vordel API Server

Most mobile access is non-browser based. The majority of mobile access is via native applications that run on specifically platforms such as iOS and Android. These native applications rely on APIs to communicate with enterprise systems. Traditional IAM platforms rely on the browser for tasks such as session management, cookie management and SSL termination. That is why these platforms have never been effective at managing the access for APIs, SOA Web Services and B2B secured file transfers. Vordel API Server extends your existing IAM platform to handle non-browser based access, including mobile APIs.

Support For Third-Party Identity Providers with Vordel API Server

Many consumers prefer to use their Google, Facebook or Yahoo credentials to log-in to mobile and web applications. Increasingly consumer-facing mobile applications need to integrate with these Cloud based identity provider services. Financial services, telecommunication companies and government agencies are expected to start offering identity provider services in the future. This third-party identity provider model may carry into the enterprise space where enterprise users can use their corporate credential to log into a B2B partner’s application. Vordel API Server supports third-party identity provider integration for mobile APIs using the OAuth standard. Vordel provides deployment templates for OAuth client, resource server and authorization server implementations.