powerful enterprise cloud security

Lots of users + lots of apps =
a whole lot of security worries

The use of an array of cloud applications to improve efficiency and ease of operation across functions in your organization has become a given.

As the number of applications and users at your organization increases, the level of complexity in managing large numbers of credentials rises exponentially.

This complexity brings with it a corresponding increase in the threat of data breaches and data theft.

User identity and access management are most often the biggest factors in determining how easily these threats can affect your cloud.

A productivity drain for
your HR and IT teams

In addition to security concerns, dealing with the sheer volume of credentials connecting users to applications can be quite overwhelming, especially in larger corporates.

Your HR and IT teams are often forced to resort to manual intervention to manage user access to your organization’s apps - a difficult task that saps their productivity.

Akku Single Sign-On can help!

Akku’s customized SAML enables you to integrate a highly secure single sign-on (SSO) with any cloud or local application, developed on any platform, including support for your intranet.

Provide each of your users with a single login to access any or all of the local and cloud applications used by your organization.

With Akku as your Identity Provider (IdP), all of your cloud applications redirect authentication to Akku to validate the identity and permissions of the user.

This enables improved security and convenience, while also making your HR and IT teams more productive.

Productivity and convenience
in the always-on business

On the face of it, allowing your users to access your organization’s cloud applications from any location and any device sounds like a great idea.

Allowing your users to access your enterprise’s apps from their homes, or from their mobile devices while they are on the move can be a major enabler.

Anywhere, anyhow access
isn’t all it’s cut out to be

When sensitive, business-critical data is involved, cloud security must take priority over incremental improvements in efficiency.

By allowing unfettered access to your organization’s applications from any location and any device, you open yourself up to the risk of breaches in data security and privacy.

Akku’s IP- and Device-based
Access Restrictions put you in control!

Akku’s customized SAML API integrates with your organization’s cloud applications to separate identity management from the service provider. Akku therefore acts as the Identity Provider, enabling you to restrict access to your applications only from predefined locations, policies or IP addresses.

Additionally, Akku deploys a secure certificate-based authentication architecture that enables you to restrict access to your apps only from specific devices where a Client SSL Key is installed.

Good email, bad email

Permitting personal email access at your organization comes with no benefits and a laundry list of potential threats.

Since personal email accounts do not have advanced spam filters that corporate accounts are equipped with, the likelihood of data security threats and spam content affecting the corporate network is greatly increased.

Permitting access to personal mail opens the door to data privacy breaches as well. And if that’s not bad enough, accessing personal email may also result in reduced productivity among your employees.

So why is it a problem
to block access to personal email?

If your business, like so many others, uses Google Suite for its email services, you are probably already aware of a problem that this poses. The login URL for your employees to access their work and personal email accounts is the same. So simply blocking Gmail.com is not a solution.

What this means for your IT team is that it is difficult and expensive to block access only to personal Gmail and not to corporate Google Suite accounts.

Akku’s Personal Email Block
has it figured out!

Akku helps you to block personal email access by intercepting and reading the HTTP headers of all mails in the flow of email traffic. Through this process, Akku blocks personal emails and permits only mails for accounts from whitelisted domains to flow through.

This enables you to easily set up a personal email block, without the need for an expensive firewall

With great power comes
great responsibility

YouTube is an extremely powerful resource for reference, education and upskilling for your employees.

But video streaming puts an enormous load on your organization’s bandwidth, resulting in slower connectivity. Access to irrelevant content on YouTube can also result in decreased employee productivity.

Overkill is overrated

The traditional method of enabling access only to specific videos and channels while blocking irrelevant content typically involves deploying an advanced modern firewall - very difficult and often extremely expensive to implement.

Akku’s YouTube Filter
to the rescue!

Akku’s web proxy enables you to enforce Restricted Mode or Moderate Restricted Mode for YouTube video access, while Akku’s internet content adaptation technique server allows filtering of YouTube videos throughout your organization based on Channel ID or Category.

Easy-to-crack passwords
make for a hard-to-defend cloud

With your business-critical data hosted on your organization’s cloud applications, the security of your data depends heavily on the strength of your users’ passwords.

Without a strong password policy in place, the likelihood of your users setting a password that is easy to crack increases greatly, and with it, the risks of security breaches and data theft increase too.

So just implement a strong
password policy. Right?

Well, there’s a catch - it is very difficult to enforce a standards-compliant password policy, or indeed, your company’s own policy, across all of your cloud apps.

This is because each application is from a different service provider with different password security standards.

Akku’s Password Policy Engine
brings it all together!

Akku plays the role of Identity Provider (IdP), to bring together all of your organization’s cloud applications from different service providers under a single identity.

This makes it possible for you to enforce a custom password policy across the organization, to comply with statutory (or your company’s own) security standards.

Akku’s powerful and flexible password policy engine enables you to set a password policy - either throughout the organization or on individual systems - that complies with PCI and ISO/IECt standards.

A shield to protect your armor

When there’s truly critical data involved, you need fallbacks for your fallbacks. A strong password forms only a first line of defence - if it is compromised, your sensitive enterprise data comes under threat.

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) provides a powerful additional layer of protection that is vital to resist breaches in such situations.

Yay MFA! So where’s the catch?

It is difficult and expensive to set up and streamline MFA for all the cloud applications in use at your organization.

Each app is from a different service provider and bringing them all to a common platform can be a major hassle.

Akku’s MFA capability steels
up your defences!

Akku plays the role of Identity Provider, to bring together all of your organization’s cloud applications from different service providers under a single identity. This makes it possible for you to easily implement MFA across apps.

With multiple MFA options like TOTP, thumb-print scanner, retina scanner and Yubikey to name a few, Akku also helps you meet statutory (or your company’s own) security compliance standards.

It’s a harsh world outside
the safety of your firewall

Your organization may already deploy a gateway firewall which incorporates a DNS filter to blacklist or whitelist access to specific websites or domains.

But these restrictions no longer apply when a user moves outside your firewall. This exposes their devices - and your data - to both external threats and internal malware.

Akku’s DNS Filter has your back!

Akku’s website filter helps to block access to blacklisted domains even when your users’ devices are outside your organization’s firewall.

This enables you to continue to maintain website blocking instructions for your devices, regardless of the location from where they access the internet. Additional blacklist and whitelist instructions can also be set directly through Akku.

Getting your new cloud security solution up and running is often a challenging project in itself. Signing up is easy with most solution providers. Deployment is not. Working with a third party system integrator is usually necessary to get off the ground, which is both expensive and time consuming

Not so with Akku - we ourselves play the role of your system integrator. Our team is well equipped to handhold you through the complexities of deployment and add efficiency to your operations through always-on support.

Akku provides you with a dedicated team of professionals to support you every step of the way - a Relationship Manager to serve as your point of contact, a Technology Lead to guide you through any technical challenges you may encounter, and a Business Analyst to effectively align Akku’s technology solutions with your business needs.

Whichever stage of the process you’re at - deployment, training, operation, audit or further development - you can be sure there is an experienced technical expert from Akku to help you 24x7 on phone, email or through remote