AVG Business Secure Sign-On mobile security

Online security company AVG Technologies has announced the availability of AVG Business Secure Sign-On (SSO). Underpinned by technology from identity management company Centrify, AVG Business SSO works to provide AVG partners and business owners with a simple way to control company data on employees’ mobile devices and cloud applications.

AVG Business SSO allows AVG partners to offer much needed help to those small business customers who are struggling with the issues of bring your own device (BYOD) and password management. Now partners can roll out services that give their customers simple, secure management of their users’ mobile device data and applications in a matter of a few clicks.

A fully connected environment puts smaller firms at risk of data breaches and AVG Business SSO makes it simple for businesses without big budgets or in-house IT staff to keep company confidential data safe, private and within their control, even while it is shared with employee-owned mobile devices and externally hosted cloud services.

Key features include: centralised control of cloud and mobile apps/data for one-click authentication of end-user mobile devices - single secure sign-on with multifactor authentication (MFA) for any device unifies identity and mobile device management to give simplified control of mobile data; affordable identity policy, verification and mobile device management service - including via Active Directory; efficient password management - eliminates risk from easy-to-remember, re-used and/or improperly managed passwords, improves end-user productivity by eliminating the need to remember multiple passwords and reduces volume of helpdesk calls resulting from forgotten passwords; range of business applications - support for more than 2500 of the most popular cloud-based business apps including Office 365, Salesforce, Webex, Facebook, LinkedIn and many more helping IT providers monetise mobile and cloud management services.

Integration with AVG Business Managed Workplace - provides a single, secure access layer to AVG’s entire security and remote monitoring and management (RMM) services portfolio.