CA Single Sign-On Agent for SharePoint
Secure and streamline access to your SharePoint environment with the CA Single Sign-On Agent for SharePoint, ensuring efficient user authentication for your business operations.
- License Entitlement: Access to the CA Single Sign-On Agent software for integrating SharePoint with your existing identity management infrastructure.
- Platform Integration: Coverage for deploying the agent on supported SharePoint server environments to enable single sign-on capabilities.
- Security Enhancement: Protection against unauthorized access by enforcing centralized authentication policies for SharePoint users.
- Operational Continuity: Entitlement to use the software for uninterrupted, secure access to SharePoint resources, maintaining business productivity.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The CA Single Sign-On Agent for SharePoint is a software license that integrates CA Technologies' identity and access management solutions with Microsoft SharePoint. This agent enables centralized authentication, allowing users to access SharePoint resources using a single set of credentials, thereby enhancing security and simplifying the user experience.
This solution is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies who manage their own IT infrastructure. It fits into environments where SharePoint is a critical application for document management, collaboration, or internal portals, and where robust, unified access control is a business requirement.
- Unified Access: Enables single sign-on to SharePoint, reducing password fatigue and improving user productivity.
- Enhanced Security: Centralizes authentication and authorization, enforcing corporate security policies across SharePoint access.
- Simplified Administration: Streamlines user account management by integrating with existing identity providers.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet regulatory compliance requirements by providing auditable access logs and strong authentication controls.
- Agent Functionality: Provides the necessary software component to bridge CA Single Sign-On with the SharePoint platform.
This license provides essential functionality for businesses seeking to secure and simplify access to their SharePoint deployments without the overhead of enterprise-level IT management.
What This Enables
Enable Centralized SharePoint Authentication
Enable teams to integrate SharePoint access with their existing CA Single Sign-On solution. Streamline user authentication processes, reducing help desk tickets related to password resets and access provisioning.
on-premises servers, hybrid cloud environments, business-critical applications, internal collaboration platforms
Enhance SharePoint Security Posture
Automate the enforcement of strong authentication policies for all SharePoint users. Protect sensitive business data by preventing unauthorized access through a unified security framework.
regulated industries, sensitive data repositories, corporate intranets, document management systems
Simplify User Access Management
Streamline the management of user identities and access rights for SharePoint resources. Improve operational efficiency by reducing the administrative burden of managing multiple user accounts and permissions.
growing organizations, IT departments with limited staff, businesses standardizing on identity solutions
Key Features
Single Sign-On Integration
Users can access SharePoint with their existing corporate credentials, improving productivity and reducing password-related support calls.
Centralized Policy Enforcement
Enforce consistent security policies across SharePoint access, strengthening the overall security posture of the organization.
User Account Synchronization
Automates the synchronization of user accounts and permissions between the identity provider and SharePoint, simplifying administration.
Auditable Access Logs
Provides detailed logs of user access activities, aiding in compliance audits and security investigations.
Platform Agent
The specific software component required to enable the integration between CA Single Sign-On and Microsoft SharePoint.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent access controls and audit trails to comply with regulations like SOX and PCI DSS, making centralized SSO for critical applications like SharePoint essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating secure access and auditable user activity logs for patient data stored or managed within SharePoint.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client information and need robust security measures and simplified access for their users to manage case files and documents in SharePoint.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often use SharePoint for internal documentation, project management, and collaboration, requiring secure and efficient access for a distributed workforce to maintain operational continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the CA Single Sign-On Agent for SharePoint?
It is a software license that allows CA Single Sign-On to authenticate users accessing Microsoft SharePoint. This enables a single sign-on experience for SharePoint users.
Who is this license intended for?
This license is for businesses that use Microsoft SharePoint and have invested in CA Technologies' Single Sign-On solution for their identity and access management. It is suitable for SMB and mid-market companies.
What are the benefits of using this agent?
The primary benefits include enhanced security through centralized authentication, improved user productivity by eliminating multiple logins, and simplified administration of user access to SharePoint.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.