WSO2 introduces Asgardeo next-Generation IDaaS at GITEX

Customer identity and access management (CIAM) is an important aspect for a safe digital experience as part of safe online interactions, but many application developers often lack the skills to implement CIAM  in their client-facing applications. WSO2 to overcome this challenge by introducing  Asgardeo, their next-generation identification as a service (IDaaS) solution at GITEX.

WSO2 will demonstrate Asgardeo’s capabilities at GITEX 2021, which will take place at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre from October 17 to 21, 2021. The demos may be seen at WSO2’s booth, CC2-5 (Concourse 2, Booth 5).

“Organizations are accelerating their digital initiatives, but they often lose traction when applications fail to meet the company’s security policies. With Asgardeo, enterprises can now encode their security policies and standards to reduce development time and transform security reviews into simple check-the-box exercises,” said Eric Newcomer, WSO2 CTO.

Further said, “At the same time, using Asgardeo, it’s easier than ever for development teams to foster customer loyalty by giving them a great enrollment experience and building these users confidence in the protection of their personal information.”

Asgardeo’s early adopter release, which is now available, establishes a new industry standard for enabling developers without security knowledge to quickly and easily integrate powerful CIAM features into their products. Through a variety of templates and other no-code/low code alternatives, the IdaaS includes built-in CIAM best practices and workflows. It also allows developers to operate inside traditional software development environments while integrating security code. Furthermore, Asgardeo’s cloud-native infrastructure provides the cost-effective scalability, stability, and agility that enterprises building digital experiences want, as well as the privilege access control capabilities that cloud-native environments require.

As a result, development teams using Asgardeo can:

• Take advantage of Asgardeo’s developer-centric approach to IAM and CIAM to increase their productivity and accelerate time to market, resulting in a higher, faster return on investment.
• Focus valuable team resources on delivering superior customer experiences since the IDaaS reduces the time required to manage infrastructure and deployments.
• Quickly deliver safe, secure, and robust cloud-native digital applications that give customers confidence their data will be protected.
• Simplify customers’ experiences by letting them use the same log-in credentials no matter what part of the system they are connected to.
• Streamline security reviews and approvals by codifying policies and standards, freeing developers to concentrate on building out their core applications.
• Protect sensitive APIs and integrations in the cloud.

Bringing Industry-Leading CIAM to the Cloud

As gardeo draws on WSO2 Identity Server’s broad CIAM capabilities, which have been recognised by some of the world’s best research firms. In the Kuppinger Cole Analysts’ CIAM Platforms Leadership Compass 2020 study, published on November 20, 2020, WSO2 was named an overall leader, a technology leader, and an innovation leader. WSO2 was also designated a Strong Performer in Forrester Research, Inc.’s The Forrester Wave: Customer Identity and Access Management, Q4 2020 study, which was released on October 8, 2020.

Asgardeo inherits rich authentication and access management functionality from the WSO2 Identity Server, including the ability to:

• Implement strong authentication via adaptive authentication and a range of multi-factor authentication options to ensure secure access to the web and mobile applications.
• Establish federated access to the web and mobile applications across multiple trust domains using open identity standards, such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OpenID Connect, Central Authentication Service (CAS), and WS-Federation.
• Extend federated ID management across multiple software as a service (SaaS) providers’ APIs.
• Bridge identities across multiple heterogeneous systems and protocols, with advanced transformations.
• Manage access to APIs and microservices with comprehensive support for API security standards.
• Protect cloud-native, multi-cloud, and hybrid applications equally.

Adopting WSO2 Identity Server to protect and optimize their knowledge of these users while also improving their overall experience,” said Geethika Cooray, WSO2 vice president and head of an identity and access management at WSO2.

Further said, “With Asgardeo, we’re combining the high-performance and mature capabilities of WSO2 Identity Server with the rapid deployment, scalability and agility of the cloud to help developers speed the delivery of client-facing apps harnessing the full potential of CIAM.”