Enterprise Application Store Single Sign-On Policy Enforcement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face challenges in efficiently controlling and managing mobile devices and applications within their enterprise environments, particularly in ensuring secure access to resources and enforcing policies across diverse devices and platforms.
Innovation Solution
An enterprise application store is implemented, providing single sign-on functionality, mobile device management, and policy updates, allowing administrators to define and enforce policies on applications, and ensuring secure interactions between mobile devices and enterprise resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional mobile device management methods are used, then basic device control is possible, but efficient control and management of mobile devices and applications within enterprise environments is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an enterprise application store as an intermediary system between mobile devices and enterprise resources. This store provides a centralized platform for distributing applications, enforcing policies, and managing device access, thereby improving management efficiency without directly complicating individual devices. The application store acts as a mediator that handles the complexity of enterprise resource management while presenting a simplified interface to users.
2Adaptability or versatility
If mobile devices are enabled with increasing functions, then user capability and resource access improve, but control over device usage and resource access becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the mobile device environment into managed and unmanaged partitions. The enterprise application store distributes applications to specific partitions based on policy requirements, allowing different levels of control over different device functions. This segmentation enables sophisticated resource access control while maintaining ease of operation for users within each segmented environment.
3Ease of operation
If applications are freely distributed to mobile devices, then user access to applications is improved, but secure access to enterprise resources cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The enterprise application store performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring applications with security policies, authentication credentials, and access controls before distribution to mobile devices. Applications are packaged with embedded security configurations that are enforced automatically upon installation and execution. This preliminary configuration ensures secure access to enterprise resources while maintaining ease of application distribution and user access.
4Reliability
If policy enforcement is implemented across diverse devices and platforms, then security and control are improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The enterprise application store implements a universal policy management system that can enforce policies across diverse devices and platforms through a single interface. The system uses standardized application packaging and configuration formats that work across different mobile operating systems and device types. This universal approach enables comprehensive policy enforcement while reducing the complexity of managing separate systems for different platforms.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing an application store are presented. In some embodiments, a request for a software application may be received at an application store. Subsequently, the software application may be configured, at the application store, based on a single sign-on credential. The configured software application then may be provided, by the application store, to at least one recipient device associated with the single sign-on credential.