JumpCloud 的一大優勢在於,它讓公司企業在選擇技術方案時擁有更多靈活性。這意味著管理員和用戶可以根據需求,選擇最適合的 IT 工具,而不僅僅是那些與身份提供者兼容的工具。JumpCloud 支援多種協議(如 LDAP、SAML 2.0、RADIUS、RESTful API 等)以及多種作業系統(Windows、Mac、Linux)。
員工只需記住一組密碼,不再因為忘記密碼而被鎖住。當他們需要重置密碼時,也可以自行操作,無需 IT 部門的介入。此外,他們只需登入一次 JumpCloud 用戶入口,即可立即存取所有應用程式,避免浪費大量時間逐一登入不同系統。
雲端目錄服務的有形價值
除了無形價值外,JumpCloud 也在財務方面帶來顯著效益。以下是幾個主要的財務考量點。如果您想深入了解這些細節,可以向我們索取 ROI 計算器。
取代 Active Directory 及其附加元件
JumpCloud 是 Microsoft® Active Directory® 的完整雲端替代方案,淘汰 AD 能夠為企業節省大量時間和資金。Active Directory 是在本地環境中建立的,而當今的 IT 資源多數已轉向雲端,且種類繁多。使用 AD 需要額外的附加元件,每個元件都有成本。企業通常需要使用超過 8 種工具來管理混雜 IT 環境中的用戶存取權限。
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「影子 IT」聽起來像是一部恐怖電影的名字,但它在現實中確實存在,並且通常是由於員工想提升工作效率、表現更好。他們會尋找幫助他們提高生產力的解決方案,但這些解決方案往往是在沒有 IT 部門監控的情況下被採用。現代「影子 IT」主要是由 IT 部門未監管的 SaaS 應用程式組成,這可能導致營運效率低下、成本增長以及安全漏洞的出現。
Version 2 Digital 是立足亞洲的增值代理商及IT開發者。公司在網絡安全、雲端、數據保護、終端設備、基礎設施、系統監控、存儲、網絡管理、商業生產力和通信產品等各個領域代理發展各種 IT 產品。透過公司龐大的網絡、通路、銷售點、分銷商及合作夥伴,Version 2 提供廣被市場讚賞的產品及服務。Version 2 的銷售網絡包括台灣、香港、澳門、中國大陸、新加坡、馬來西亞等各亞太地區,客戶來自各行各業,包括全球 1000 大跨國企業、上市公司、公用事業、醫療、金融、教育機構、政府部門、無數成功的中小企及來自亞洲各城市的消費市場客戶。
Version 2 Digital 是立足亞洲的增值代理商及IT開發者。公司在網絡安全、雲端、數據保護、終端設備、基礎設施、系統監控、存儲、網絡管理、商業生產力和通信產品等各個領域代理發展各種 IT 產品。透過公司龐大的網絡、通路、銷售點、分銷商及合作夥伴,Version 2 提供廣被市場讚賞的產品及服務。Version 2 的銷售網絡包括台灣、香港、澳門、中國大陸、新加坡、馬來西亞等各亞太地區,客戶來自各行各業,包括全球 1000 大跨國企業、上市公司、公用事業、醫療、金融、教育機構、政府部門、無數成功的中小企及來自亞洲各城市的消費市場客戶。
「我最欣賞 JumpCloud 的地方在於,它可以與各種系統和應用程式無縫整合,使我們的用戶管理變得非常輕鬆。它的靈活性和安全性令人驚嘆,且優質的支援服務讓我們在使用這個平台時充滿信心。」—— G2 用戶 Juan D.
「JumpCloud 是一個出色的平台,作為身份與存取管理工具,它讓跨系統和應用程式的用戶身份驗證和授權變得簡單。它支援多種平台與操作系統,如 Windows、MacOS 和 Linux,這對於混合環境特別有用,同時保證了安全性和合規性,多重身份驗證及基於群組的安全策略也得到了完善的支援。它的可擴展性非常出色,能隨著企業成長進行調整。」—— G2 用戶 Alex R.
「JumpCloud 是現代 IT 基礎設施的全面解決方案。作為一家網絡安全 SaaS 公司的信息安全經理,我親身體驗了 JumpCloud 帶來的眾多好處。我們使用 JumpCloud 作為 MDM 工具,其設備管理功能首屈一指。通過實施安全策略、監控裝置狀況及遙距操作,我們輕鬆維護了安全且合規的 IT 環境。」—— G2 用戶 Siddhi V.
Version 2 Digital 是立足亞洲的增值代理商及IT開發者。公司在網絡安全、雲端、數據保護、終端設備、基礎設施、系統監控、存儲、網絡管理、商業生產力和通信產品等各個領域代理發展各種 IT 產品。透過公司龐大的網絡、通路、銷售點、分銷商及合作夥伴,Version 2 提供廣被市場讚賞的產品及服務。Version 2 的銷售網絡包括台灣、香港、澳門、中國大陸、新加坡、馬來西亞等各亞太地區,客戶來自各行各業,包括全球 1000 大跨國企業、上市公司、公用事業、醫療、金融、教育機構、政府部門、無數成功的中小企及來自亞洲各城市的消費市場客戶。
Active Directory (AD) was introduced two decades ago to provide centralized user and rights management as well as Windows PC configurations for private networks behind firewalls. Email was the first factor to upend that model for access control, and was followed by the proliferation of cloud services and devices that transformed networks into a digital estate.
The perimeter model that AD supported worked well, until it didn’t. Its shortcomings helped lay the groundwork for the Zero Trust approach to identity and access management (IAM). Zero Trust brings access control (the perimeter) closer to identities and devices by enforcing explicit trust before granting access to resources.
JumpCloud’s open directory platform makes it possible to modernize AD for Zero Trust. It works by combining cloud IAM with universal endpoint management (UEM) and other essential services to manage today’s IT infrastructures, which are a hybrid of everything, everywhere. JumpCloud’s Active Directory Integration (ADI) feature integrates AD with the open directory.
ADI makes it possible for multi-domain environments to extend AD environments to the cloud without locking small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into a suite of vertically integrated tools. That approach to AD modernization can limit freedom of choice and distract from your overall mission by making IT management significantly more difficult. This article provides an overview of what ADI is and how it works to help SMEs reestablish the strong access control that was lost when AD’s network perimeter model failed to meet today’s IT infrastructure needs.
Note: JumpCloud helps you follow Microsoft’s Zero Trust Rapid Modernization Plan (RaMP) for a privileged access strategy to secure AD.
AD Integration Deployment Models
ADI continuously syncs users, groups, and passwords between AD and JumpCloud. Its components are installed on a member server and configured to import and sync identities for each domain. It provides several options for authentication flows: bi-directional syncing and one-way syncing (in either direction). Pass-through authentication back to AD is supported to uphold security and compliance requirements for local authentication and authorization.
Note: Microsoft’s Entra ID cloud directory will not synchronize groups unless the subscription is a Premium SKU.
Bi-Directional Synchronization
Bi-directionality means that password changes that occur on the integrated platform get synchronized and changed in AD. This makes it possible for friction-free user access with single-sign on (SSO). It also enables advanced identity lifecycle management. For example, you can use JumpCloud to sync human resources systems with JumpCloud and back to AD.
AD integrations are often one-way, where AD is the source of truth and a third-party application or IT resource authenticates user access against AD. Resources such as web applications require SSO in order to meet modern security and usability requirements. A cloud directory provides SSO with the added benefit of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and conditional access to enable a Zero Trust security strategy that “assumes breach” and verifies requests.
This approach modernizes AD to extend access control to every device and resource without requiring admins to perform consolidation, migration, or deep integrations with multiple point solutions. Admins can manage users, groups, and access in either AD or JumpCloud.
There’s also an available migration path to JumpCloud, if and when it makes sense to leave AD.
Note: Microsoft requires its customers that modernize AD using Entra ID to purchase premium subscriptions for password write-back.
Pass-Through Authentication
Some sectors are required to retain oversight of their credential store for certainty and compliance. JumpCloud’s open directory can federate authentication AD through ADI, which extends AD to other resources and devices without running afoul of those rules.
Note: Outbound authentication flows from AD to JumpCloud enable AD users to access cloud resources and non-Windows devices.
Modernizing AD with JumpCloud
JumpCloud is modern, user-friendly, and makes it possible for admins to manage SSO and UEM from a single console with minimal effort. It also extends SSO to common network protocols, adding convenience, while reducing the risk of unauthorized access to infrastructure. A Zero Trust IAM strategy complements your existing investment in network perimeter security.
A crucial part of reestablishing access control over your digital estate comes from the ability to integrate AD with non-Windows systems.
Universal Endpoint Management
JumpCloud’s UEM adds the ability to integrate Android, macOS, and Linux devices into Active Directory-controlled environments with mobile device management (MDM) support for Windows. Untrusted endpoints can become a weak link in a Zero Trust strategy; UEM ensures that there’s a baseline of policies and patch management (optional) to reduce your attack surface.
End users don’t have to jump through hoops to stay compliant with password policies, password resets, and other critical functions. And, they can do this from anywhere — with no VPN. Built-in remote assist is available to support your users with both attended and unattended sessions.
ADI synced identities connect through SSO to networking infrastructure with RADIUS, cloud infrastructure and web apps with OIDC and SAML, file servers on-prem and in the cloud, legacy applications via LDAP, and more by using JumpCloud’s RESTful API.
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JumpCloud offers an integrated password manager for when SSO isn’t possible.
The platform also includes JumpCloud Go™, a hardware-protected and phishing-resistant passwordless login for JumpCloud managed devices. It provides modern authentication that’s more secure and simpler and safer for your users. JumpCloud Go is supported on MacOS and Windows and integrates with device biometric authenticators (Apple Touch ID or Windows Hello) to satisfy traditional password sign-in challenges. It will provide high MFA authenticator assurance.
Modern authentication helps to harden AD against the latest security threats.
Adopting SSO and UEM is recommended for all organizations that use AD, per Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA). JumpCloud provides SMEs with an alternative to Microsoft’s prescribed path by keeping your identity provider (IdP) and IT stack independent. JumpCloud has essential IAM, UEM, and system management capabilities in a single place.
Try JumpCloud ADI
Still wondering what Active Directory Integration is and how it can modernize AD? See for yourself when you sign up for a free trial of JumpCloud. It’s included with the open directory platform at no additional charge. JumpCloud has professional service options to assist with onboarding users. JumpCloud is also a Google partner and integrates with Google Workspace, making both services better together with a modern IT management and productivity package.
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About JumpCloud At JumpCloud, our mission is to build a world-class cloud directory. Not just the evolution of Active Directory to the cloud, but a reinvention of how modern IT teams get work done. The JumpCloud Directory Platform is a directory for your users, their IT resources, your fleet of devices, and the secure connections between them with full control, security, and visibility.