Atlassian Crowd Server
Single Sign On and User Identity that's easy to use
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Secure Authentication
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Integrated Add-Ons
The Challenge
Unified SSO Across Internal & Atlassian Applications
Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, offering a full range of
communications services and competing in all telecommunications markets.
Telstra has an environment where all the users were stored in a centralized system ‘IDP’. It has
multiple internal applications. It also has each of its servers Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo for which user
permissions were stored in Crowd’s user groups/directories and handled by multiple administrators.
Telstra was looking for a Single Sign-On solution for all internal as well as Atlassian applications where they wanted to authenticate/login users with centralized/external IDP while ensuring that the users permission for the Atlassian suite of applications will still be managed by Crowd. Telstra came to know about our mo Crowd SAML SSO plugin and they reached out to us for possible solutions.
Solutions we provided to Telstra
Crowd SAML SSO
SSO Connectors
miniOrange provided the "Crowd SAML SSO” plugin and “Crowd SSO connectors” plugin, which expand the SAML SSO functionality from Crowd to its connected Atlassian applications. These solutions allow users to enable SAML Authentication from any SAML-compliant IDP, ensuring SAML SSO requests and responses pass via the Crowd server. The IDP performs user authentication while user permissions remain under Crowd's control.
As a software security company, miniOrange understands the importance of organizational security. By successfully developing the connector to meet Telstra’s specific needs, we enabled secure access to Crowd for enterprises, offering full control over access to applications. This implementation also facilitates Single Sign-On (SSO) into Crowd with one set of login credentials, providing both secure access and streamlined authentication for users.
By fulfilling Telstra's requirements, we not only met their specific needs but also contributed to our journey of innovation, delivering high-quality products and world-class support to enhance security.
How It Works
miniOrange SAML Single Sign On (SSO) Add-On acts as a SAML Service Provider which can be configured to establish the trust between the Atlassian applications and a SAML capable Identity Provider to securely authenticate the user to the Crowd Server.
The Crowd Server is integrated with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo and Fisheye in a single server through Crowd SSO connectors for Atlassian applications. This allows any user landing on these applications to be authenticated from the Crowd server. The crowd server was made responsible for SAML authentication from IDP, session management, as well as user and group management. Owing to which we were able to meet the expectations of Telstra and became the first in the market to provide these add-ons together.
SAML Single Sign on for Crowd has the best SSO features that work with all Identity Providers. Users can sign into Crowd Server with theirSAML 2.0 capable Identity Provider. We support all known IdPs such as Google Apps, ADFS, Azure AD, Okta, OneLogin, Salesforce, Shibboleth, SimpleSAMLphp, OpenAM, Centrify, Ping, RSA, IBM, Oracle, Bitium, WSO2, NetIQ, miniOrange, etc.
NOTE: SINGLE SIGN-ON CROWD SET UP GUIDE.
Key Benefits
- User can access multiple internal as well as Atlassian applications using the same credentials.
- Users are automatically signed into Crowd as well as connected to the Atlassian Applications.
- The users permission for the Atlassian suite of applications is still being managed by administrators from the Crowd Server.
- This made it easy as the user is not required to keep multiple credentials to access the applications.
For Telstra, our product proved to be the best. What about you? If you don’t find what you are looking for, please contact us at info@xecurify.com or call us at +1 978 658 9387 to find an answer to your question about Single Sign-On(SSO).
