Ryan Squires

Blog – JumpCloud

FreeRADIUS servers offer a tremendous amount of flexibility and power, but along with that flexibility and power could come a steep learning curve. This is exacerbated by the fact that a FreeRADIUS graphical user interface (GUI) is not built in to the standard FreeRADIUS software solution that people find at ... Read More

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are one of the most popular ways to secure network traffic between points. VPNs have been quite popular for a number of reasons, and now more than ever they need to be secured because of the critical resources on each end of the VPN. For IT ... Read More

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications are more widely used than ever before largely due to convenience and cross-platform availability. But, with that increase in usage comes risk to your reputation, financial standing, and your clients’ data. If you’ve ever wondered about the ways in which bad actors are looking to take advantage ... Read More

Okta® vs Centrify® used to be a heavyweight fight in the identity and access management (IAM) space. But, with the changes at Centrify, it seems as though the two no longer heavily compete in that arena. With that said, let’s take a look at what makes this comparison useful today, ... Read More

For an detailed look at what each protocol brings to your identity management strategy, take a look at our RADIUS vs LDAP comparison. The post LDAP vs RADIUS appeared first on JumpCloud ... Read More

Centrify provided one of the most critical IT management tools for heterogeneous computing environments with their Centrify Express® for Mac® product. This product enabled IT admins to integrate Macs with Microsoft® Active Directory® (MAD or AD). In effect, it gave admins the ability to simplify password resets and manage macOS® ... Read More

As IT organizations look to connect their non-Windows® resources to Microsoft® Active Directory®, one question comes up quite often: what is Centrify®? In web searches targeted at discovering a way to extend AD, Centrify comes up quite a bit, so it’s important to understand what their product does. In short, ... Read More

Many IT admins and DevOps engineers considering how to manage their access to networking infrastructure will compare FreeRADIUS vs Cisco® ISE. While both solutions are technically RADIUS servers, each making use of the RADIUS protocol to connect user identities to networking infrastructure, they also serve very different purposes. This blog ... Read More

As the world shifts to cross-platform system environments with macOS® and Linux® systems in addition to Windows® machines, a pressing challenge for IT admins is how to manage this heterogeneous system environment. Looking at the problem through a traditional lens, making all of these different types of devices work in ... Read More

How do you auth Mac® systems with Azure® AD? The short answer is that you don’t really. Thankfully, there is a next-generation cloud identity provider that is making it easy to use one set of credentials for both Azure® AD and your Mac®. If that sounds like something you want ... Read More