New App! Login to your websites using Crowd credentials (OAuth/OpenID)

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Do you want Crowd to manage all your users and allow you to connect all of your organization's applications, even non-Atlassian applications, to it? You are in luck! We have just what you need.

Atlassian Crowd is an application for centralized identity and access management. The Crowd Administration Console provides a web interface for managing directories, users, and their permissions. It is widely used for user management in many organizations.

Atlassian Crowd can be seamlessly connected to all the Atlassian applications (such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and others) using the SSO 1.0 supported by the Crowd. This improves security and also allows users seamless access to all the Atlassian applications using the single Crowd session. And this helps administrators to handle all the Atlassian applications, their users, their permissions, etc from a single place, on the Crowd.

But what about the non-Atlassian applications? Many web-based applications (apart from Atlassian applications) are used internally by organizations and there is no direct way to integrate them with Crowd. As a result, the users need to remember the username and passwords for each web application, and admins need to manage all those web applications separately. If only there was a way to connect all the non-Atlassian applications to the crowd... 

Now there is a way.

Our new app (Crowd OAuth/OpenID Server) allows you to transform your Crowd into OAuth Server or OpenID Provider, allowing you to connect all your web applications that support the OAuth/OpenID protocols to Crowd. Simply install the app and follow the setup guide to get started.

OAuth and OpenID are standard and simple protocols that are used by a wide range of web-based, mobile, and desktop applications. OAuth and OpenID allows you to discard the need to remember all of your usernames and passwords. They can handle application authentication and authorization. They are getting popular with time and used by numerous organizations. Log in to all your applications that support OAuth/OpenID using Crowd credentials. 

When all of your web applications are connected to Crowd, an SSO option will appear on the application’s login screen and the users will be able to login to the application via Crowd SSO. So now they won’t need to remember separate usernames and passwords for each web application, and they will be able to log into all of them using a single set of strong Crowd credentials. This would also reduce the administrative overhead of managing users separately across all of those applications.

Advantages of connecting to Crowd:

• Enhanced security for your applications that follow secure & trusted SSO protocol
• The improved user experience by having to remember only 1 set of credentials
• Manage all users & groups in one place
• Saves a lot of time for admins by focusing on infrastructure management rather than password reset requests

What do you think of this solution? Do you think this would help centralize authentication for your users? 

Drop us a mail at info@xecurify.com or raise a ticket here to talk to us.