Blog posts tagged with 'sso'

This is a little-known fact that may be very interesting for customers who want SSO, but realize Password Manager does not natively support your language.  We have an SDK available for partners to do their own translations of the CPM UI.  It is available for free, and has already been requested by partners in Russia, Czeckoslovakia, Sweden, Italy and Poland.

This SDK can be used with standalone CPM and XenApp Platinum (Single Sign-on powered by Password Manager.)  Both offerings are the same code base.

Our terms are intentionally simple: the local Citrix rep approves the partner to me, partner signs a EULA, I give the partner access to the SDK via FTP, and the partner owns the resultant work effort (of course CPM licenses are still required for the customers purchasing translated versions from the partner.)

The caveats are that the business partner is responsible for keeping up with changes as new releases are provided from Citrix, and the local Citrix account team vouches for the integrity of the partner.  We need to be sure the UI delivered is of quality, hence the local team involvement.

If you're interested, please have your Citrix rep contact kate.brew@citrix.com

 Would also appreciate comments on this approach - yea or nay!

Without Single Sign-On, users are left to their own devices (such as yellow stickies) to retain the many different passwords they need.

Trouble was that security vendors were so eager to provide this functionality (starting about 10-12 years ago), and the hype was so great, and the technology was so immature, that early SSO projects often had tragic results.  Early implementers in some cases dumped millions in services dollars to coax the immature SSO product into actually working for a subset of their applications.

 Well, the technology is mature now, and SSO really works!

With the Citrix SSO product, Citrix Password Manager (CPM), we have a very successful install base of customers, with many implementations with more than 50,000 users.   Very conveniently, CPM is included as the SSO XenApp Platinum component, bringing more value to users as well as value to IT administrators in increasing actual security by eliminating bad user behavior.

I just got a really nice note from a Citrix rep in Australia abut the "Cookbook" available for Citrix Password Manager.  He suggested we have similar tools for all Citrix products for our partners to use.

The CPM Cookbook, AKA Citrix Password Manager Project Guide, has been on MyCitrix for a while, but I am noticing people usually can't find it.  It contains information on sizing services revenue, developing scope of product deployment, justifying ROI, writing the Statement of Work, creating the project plan and documents and templates for training and other useful tasks.

It is located here on MyCitrix, under reference desk for CPM, under Whitepapers Exclusively for MyCitrix Users: https://www.citrix.com/English/myCitrix/refDeskResults.asp?Category=product&ResourceId=7181

If you have any problem getting it, I'd be happy to send you a zipped copy.  Please contact me at kate.brew@citrix.com