Toopher’s Two Factor Authentication Supported by Gluu

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Toophers Two Factor Authentication Supported by
Gluu
Gluu, an open source access management company,
announced today that it has open-sourced the code
needed to support Toopher, a location aware
two-factor authentication mechanism, in its
enterprise SSO and access management platform.
With Toopher, Gluus enterprise customers can
offer their employees, partners, and customers an
excellent user experience for strong
authentication with single sign-on to cloud,
mobile, and social applications using SAML 2.0
and OpenID Connect, the soon-to-be standardized
profile of OAuth 2.0.   We decided to integrate
Toopher as a strong authentication solution
because it has one of the best onboarding
processes weve ever seen, affordable pricing,
and the security organizations need to offer both
out-of-band mobile authentication and the
convenience of one-click authentication from
trusted devices and web browsers, said Gluu CEO,
Mike Schwartz.   Gluu offers a number of
pre-configured solutions for multi-factor
authentication to applications that support
standard interfaces like SAML and OpenID Connect.
Each solution can be used individually or in
conjunction with one another, which provides a
level of flexibility for companies interested in
combining single sign-on with unique
authentication logic.
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Last year the global economy lost 114 billion
due to online fraud, and hackers are only getting
smarter, Toopher CEO Jason Alexander said,
citing recent attacks on Yahoo, Dropbox and
PayPal. Were getting great feedback, because
while there are lots of players in this space,
our solution is easy to use it doesnt even
require you to take your phone out of your
pocket.   Toopher, used with Gluus on-demand
cloud identity platform is a fully customizable
standards-based authorization and authentication
solution that is designed to run out-of-the-box
on your existing hardware or a dedicated cloud
server provided by Gluu. Demos of the complete,
integrated solution are available by Gluu, and
deployments are typically completed in one to
three weeks.   For more information, visit
www.gluu.org/two-factor.   About Gluu   Gluu
provides an open source authentication and
authorization platform for organizations who want
to leverage open standards such as OpenID
Connect, SAML 2.0, and UMA to enable strong
authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and access
management. Deployed quickly on the IAAS platform
of your choice, Gluus technology stack improves
the quality and drives down the cost of an
increasingly complex and mission critical IT
service authentication and authorization (AA).
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About Toopher   Founded in 2011 by a University
of Texas PhD student and an adjunct professor,
Toopher has developed a game-changing
authentication technology to prevent online
fraud. Toopher eliminates online fraud and
identity theft by providing automated,
hassle-free two-factor authentication. Toopher
works within current user behavior and everyday
activities, using the location awareness of a
smartphone to authenticate and protect user
identity, all without leaving the users pocket.
With a Software As A Service product that is true
strong, out-of-band two-factor security, Toopher
is funded by investors such as Alsop Louie and
was a Development Portfolio company of the Austin
Technology Incubator. For more information, see
http//www.toopher.com or on Twitter _at_toopherauth