AuthControl® Cloud
We have designed Swivel Secure’s AuthControl® Cloud to provide enterprise customers with a cloud-based, centrally controlled and managed authentication solution.
AuthControl® Cloud
Cloud-based authentication capabilities for Large Enterprise Organisations. AuthControl® Cloud is a unique platform that controls the deployment, monitoring, access, management, licensing and logs for multiple Swivel Secure appliances on any global, enterprise-grade cloud platform. With AuthControl® Cloud we offer a true hybrid and seamless solution for the enterprise. Our platform manages authentication for infrastructure both On-Premises AND in the cloud.
Providing the ability to deploy multiple AuthControl Sentry® instances to departments, regions, countries, suppliers, partners and even customers in the Cloud and On-Premise.
What makes AuthControl® Cloud different?
- Ultimate license and token flexibility across On-Premise and the Cloud
- Centrally managed distributed ACS instances in your network and in the Cloud
- Award-winning multi-factor authentication with patented PINsafe® technology
- Flexible authentication for all stakeholders, including customers, employees and suppliers
AuthControl® Enterprise for Cloud Overview
License flexibility
Enterprise organisations can subscribe to AuthControl® Cloud, where licenses in use are calculated and billed monthly. License Manager allows simple and versatile management of a pool of licences, which can be allocated across managed AuthControl Sentry® instances – whether On-Premise, in the Cloud, or a mixture of both.
Licenses can be allocated, revoked and reallocated as needed within and across instances. Licenses are added to the Enterprise license pool to be managed centrally. The AuthControl® Enterprise and Cloud-based appliances communicate with Swivel Secure Licensing servers to allow management of the purchased licenses and subscriptions by the Enterprise organisations.
A dedicated instance: AuthControl® Cloud appliances
AuthControl® Cloud relies on the Enterprise Organisation deploying at least two AuthControl Sentry® appliances within a VMWare environment controlled and orchestrated with VMWare Vcentre Server.
These AuthControl Sentry® appliances can be stand-alone or HA pair and need to be purchased from Swivel Secure. Alternative virtual environments can be imported into AuthControl® Enterprise outside the VMware environment – for example, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
No individual licenses are required, as licenses will be allocated through AuthControl® Enterprise from the enterprise organisation license pool.
ACC Features and functionality
| Secure, robust and modular platform. | Provide centralised logging capabilities for managed AuthControl Sentry® appliances. |
| Based on VMWare Virtual Appliance (virtualisation agnostic in the future). | Provide centralised email alerting. |
| Accessed through Web Browser using Swivel Secure AuthControl Sentry® technology. | Provide Centralised Reporting capability. |
| Can be customised and Branded for the Enterprise. | Communicate over API and SSH to VMWare environment, Swivel Appliances and Swivel Licensing Server. |
| Used to Deploy and configure AuthControl Sentry® Virtual appliances. | Provide Software management for managed AuthControl Sentry® Appliances. |
| Provide Monitoring capabilities for the deployed/ managed AuthControl Sentry® appliances. | Ability to manage and distribute OATH tokens across managed AuthControl Sentry® appliances. |
| Manage a pool of licences and tokens that can be allocated, revoked and reallocated to different AuthControl Sentry® appliances. |
Managing AuthControl® Cloud
Instances The Instances Manager allows you to manage AuthControl® Cloud. You can create, edit and exclude instances and shut down, boot up, reboot or modify the configuration. Individual instance service checking allows you to check the status of a service's status and the ability to start, stop and restart services.
Dashboard and reporting
Our graphical user interface performs the visibility and management of the AuthControl Sentry® instances on our Cloud Platform. The primary dashboard provides easily digestible information regarding the status of instances, license distribution, active users, number of authentications and attempts. The reporting capability provides the ability to generate reports manually and on a set schedule (delivered via email) and allows exporting the data into CSV or Excel.
Contact us to find out more about AuthControl® Cloud.
