Kaseya Connect 2016 wrapped up today, but not without making some major announcements. First, the company announced the general availability of Kaseya VSA™ 9.3, the company’s remote monitoring and management platform.
“Kaseya’s VSA 9.3 was clearly developed with the technician experience in mind,” says Oscar Romero, lead systems engineer for Dataprise. “Kaseya continues to develop its products based on the feedback from their user-base and this latest version is another example. The ‘rebirth’ of managed security management and the redesigned Live Connect are two powerful technical forces which will empower our engineers to not only be more efficient but, also to provide first-class service delivery to our clients.”
IDaas for MSPs
Perhaps most intriguing was the launch of Kaseya AuthAnvil On-Demand, its cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution. Kaseya AuthAnvil incorporates a Universal Directory enabling MSPs to manage all of their customer IAM needs in a comprehensive, standard and consistent fashion while seamlessly supporting the broad mix of directory management technologies deployed in their customer base.
The platform incorporates the following product features:
Multifactor Authentication (MFA): Delivering an unprecedented level of identity assurance by validating access is only permitted by authorized users. Access to devices and applications can be unlocked with popular mobile devices like iPhone®, and Android® as well as popular Universal Second Factor (U2F) hardware key technology from companies like Yubico®.
Single Sign-On (SSO): Enabling users to sign-on once to access all their working web applications. It is integrated with MFA to verify identity and with Password Management to automate the login process, and makes provisioning and de-provisioning users a snap.
Universal Directory: Enabling a cloud-based directory service to allow for a single source of truth when it comes to providing attribute-based identity management to staff and customers. Allows enterprise-class federated access to cloud applications at any scale, even when customer networks are not online or available on the Internet.
“I&T was an early adopter of Kaseya’s AuthAnvil two factor authentication and single sign on,” said Paul Cissel, CEO for Internet & Telephone, a New England-based Managed Service Provider serving customers spread across 38 different states and 14 different countries. “Our customers have significantly upgraded their level of security when we implemented these solutions. Cloud based universal directory rounds out the complete solution for us and makes IDaaS an interesting proposition.”