Cloud Identity Now Provides Access to Traditional Apps with Secure LDAP

Unifying SaaS and LDAP app management

While software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps continue to grow in popularity,

many organizations still rely on the legacy LDAP protocol to authenticate traditional applications and IT infrastructure. With secure LDAP, you can now manage access to SaaS apps and traditional LDAP-based apps/infrastructure, hosted on-premises or in the cloud, using a single identity and access management platform.

Secure LDAP enables authentication, authorization, and user/group lookups for LDAP-based apps and IT infrastructure. Secure LDAP uses the same user directory for both SaaS and LDAP-based applications, so people can use the same Cloud Identity credentials they use to log into services like G Suite and other SaaS apps as they do to log into traditional applications. Applications and IT infrastructure that use LDAP can be simply configured to leverage secure LDAP service of Cloud Identity instead of an existing legacy identity system—end users don't have to change how they access their apps.

Another benefit is that you can now manage applications and users in one place. Unifying the management of SaaS and LDAP apps with Cloud Identity helps decrease complexity and cost for your IT teams, reduce the dependency on legacy identity infrastructure such as Microsoft Active Directory, and improve security with a single place to set up identity and access policies.

Aruba Networks (HPE), Atlassian, itopia, JAMF, Jenkins (Cloudbees), OpenVPN, Papercut, pfSense (Netgate), and Puppet support LDAP.