by Rebeca | Apr 20, 2019 | Partner
Grupo CMC is a Spanish multinational consulting and technological innovation company. Their vision is to respond to the business challenges of their, a clients and ensure the success of their transformation and continuous improvement projects.
Grupo CMC are experts in digital solutions, big data and analytics, AI, IoT, mobility, eHealth, information protection and cybersecurity.
Regarding this last area, their alliance with Soffid allows them to respond to their clients challenges related to the management of identities, accesses and the management of privileged accounts.
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by Rebeca | Feb 10, 2019 | Definitions
Transparent.
Customer can check how the product has been created as we share the source code.
Agility.
Very quickly development. Streamline the process Concept to Market.
Support.
Opened collaboration between customer and vendor sharing fixes and customisation.
Collaboration.
Interaction Partners, vendors, customers… all together building an identity solution.
Adoption.
You can download and play with the solution without to pay for a license, let you engage with it rather than sold by.
Customisation.
You can potentially contribute with your collaboration and become a part of product.
Premium.
By small user fee, customer gets updates, support and other benefits.
by Rebeca | Jan 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
We did it again!
We have now updated the Soffid Console and Sync Server to 2.6.0 version.
What the new version include?
To highlight, the Docker container now supports Oracle, Sql Server and Postgresql and the installer has been also improved.
Data model:
We do allow now multi-valued fields
Custom attributes are now allowed for mail list and group memberships
Security improvements
Sync Server:
The performance is increased for heavy load scenarios
Increased server performance monitoring graph
Support for 2.6.0 console
Release notes:
Do not use service pack to upgrade from 2.5.xxx. Use the standard installer instead.
Many UI improvements
Fixed problems and bugs
by Rebeca | Aug 23, 2018 | Release
We have great news, Soffid Version 2.3 is here.
We are very excited to announce that version 2.3 of the Soffid Console and Soffid Sync server have been released.
This version includes many improvements, the greatest enhancement is its performance and stability, which is of upmost importance in the production environment, for which we highly recommend this new version.
There are many user interface improvements but the most outstanding feature is a new distributed memory cache, that will dramatically improve multi node deployments.
The team of Engineers at Soffid has been working very hard to improve on earlier releases, the new version has been extensively tried and tested. Now the 2.3 version is out there, and it is time for our clients and our community to take advantage of it. We hope you enjoy it.
Please, find this new version here.
What are the new features in this version?
The list of new features is:
1) LinOTP supported
Soffid now supports LinOTP. LinOTP is a Linux based solution to manage multi factor authentication with one time password devices. LinOTP supports different authentication protocols, token types and user repositories. This feature increases log on security.
2) User experience
This version of Soffid presents several User Experience improvements. Soffid offers an improved mechanism to rename accounts and target systems, an asynchronous search for users, groups, roles and accounts. It allows users to remove networks with deleted hosts and to execute schedulable tasks regardless of whether they are scheduled or not.
3) Distributed memory cache
Soffid’s version 2.3 presents a new distributed memory cache. This distribution of cache memory will be very useful for large deployments. Furthermore it supports large quantities of information, providing more scalability than version 2.0.
4) User interface improvements
In the 2.3 version we can also find many small user interface improvements that will enhance the user’s experience. A cleaner and clearer version of the user interface which will ease user navigation. In version 2.3 the user interface also allows to remove users.
5) Global parameter to set system in read-only, manual or automatic task creation
This feature will prevent accidental modifications of target systems during configuration and test phases, improving overall security.
6) Console password is by default encrypted in configuration files
Until version 2.3 the password to access databases from the first console was in clear text, from now on it will be obfuscated to prevent misuse.
7) Some minor bugs are also fixed within this version
We are always eager to listen to what users think of our improvements. We are also looking forward to hearing your suggestions for future Soffid versions.
Your valuable feedback is always appreciated.
The Soffid team
by Rebeca | Jan 16, 2018 | Release
As we announced when we released our 2.3 version, Soffid now supports LinOTP. As we briefly explained in our 2.3 version release announcement, LinOTP is a Linux based solution to manage multi factor authentication with one time password devices. But what does this mean for Soffid’s users?
LinOTP is an open source authentication server, as you know we are all about OS.
Over the years, and even more so in recent years, it has become apparent that protecting our employees and customers details from possible hacker attacks it’s crucial. Attacks have become more regular and across all sectors. In order to protect our customers and company’s data the industry has had to get creative, a password it’s just not enough any more and that’s where OTP comes in, as the name suggests (One Time Password) these are passwords that can only be used once, they may be a PIN sent via SMS or a series of numbers on a security token, etc. Once upon a time this type of security level was only used in banks or organisations where security was a top priority, however nowadays we see all kinds of companies interested and wanting to use extra layers of security. We realised this was a pressing need for our current and prospective customers, so we had to do something about it.
We looked at different alternatives, what could we offer our customers and prospective customers? And we found LinOTP, an OS Linux based OTP with modular architecture that matched our needs, our customer’s needs and our OS philosophy perfectly. So when we developed our version 2.3 including LinOTP among the new features was a must.
Soffid’s users can now configure Soffid’s console to request the user to authenticate using a second factor authentication. Our users can now have that extra level of protection and be reassured of the added security.
A user will still authenticate using user name and password, however when trying to perform some specific tasks, a new level of authentication will be requested, this authentication will be active for a set time, once the set time has expired, a new authentication will need to be requested to perform the task. The administrator will decide which pages or services need to be protected by this OTP.
