Intelligent CISO Issue 08 | Page 70

Janrain unveils next-gen customer IDaaS offering Jim Kaskade, CEO at Janrain anrain, a pioneer in customer identity and access management, has announced Janrain Identity Central, which allows companies to provide comprehensive customer registration, authentication, single sign-on, preference and consent management, as well as self-service account recovery significantly faster, with less effort and at lower cost, while accommodating the largest and most sophisticated use cases within Global 1,000 enterprises. J • Centralised policy administration and enforcement • Integrated identity analytics for experience optimisation (registration abandonment) and security (fraud) • Verified identity for easy access to downstream API services applications across all platforms. An application can be connected to the Janrain Identity Cloud with a simple OpenID Connect request, opening up the full arsenal of Janrain’s market- leading CIAM functionality with only minutes of development effort. Ever since its involvement in establishing the OpenID Foundation and contributing to the initial OpenID specifications, Janrain has distinguished itself by not only embracing open standards, but also innovating on top of them. With Identity Central, customer experiences (CX) are available on any channel, be it web, mobile or connected devices for the Internet of Things (IoT) and feature a highly user-friendly and rapidly deployable design based on years of industry experience. Janrain Identity Central allows: • Developers to add Janrain’s full suite of centralised enterprise- grade identity services to their applications in just minutes – new identity features can be activated centrally without any application code changes • API-first, rapid development supporting continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) • Consistent, interoperable, secure, core capabilities by using the latest open industry standard, OpenID Connect, and its self- certification programme 70 Janrain Identity Central uses OpenID Connect, a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol that allows clients to verify end-user identity and obtain basic profile information about that user in an interoperable manner. Janrain Identity Central delivers a suite of out-of-the-box, omnichannel consumer experiences (such as registration, login, preference and consent management) that address mission-critical requirements around privacy, access control, security and compliance. These experiences are optimised for web and native mobile “Identity Central allows our clients to focus on developing differentiating applications for their consumers and use our identity cloud services to take care of all things related to customer identity management,” said Jim Kaskade, CEO at Janrain. “We provide the customisable consumer identity experiences as a service, with 99.999% availability, guaranteed linear performance, industry-leading security and the most extensive list of certifications in the industry, so our enterprise customers can focus on their business.” u Issue 08 | www.intelligentciso.com