Centrify, the outfit that leverages Microsoft’s ubiquitous Active Directory, has extended its cloud-based mobile security widgetry to include Mobile Authentication Services (MAS) and deliver “Zero Sign-On” authentication to mobile apps accessing cloud services via Active Directory.
Earlier this year the company released its solution for Active Directory Group Policy-based management of mobile devices to enable Mobile Device Management (MDM). Now it’s making the other major Active Directory-provided service available – authentication – and seamlessly extending it to mobile devices and applications.
That makes Centrify the only vendor to offer both integrated MDM and MAS.
It’s got a MAS SDK so cloud, mobile and SaaS developers can integrate native and web-based mobile apps with Active Directory and it’s introducing a Mobile Technology Partner Program.