Cloud Directory Services Resources

At JumpCloud, our mission is to help organizations securely manage their users and connect them to the systems, applications, data, and networks they need. We are driven to grant our customers efficiency, control, flexibility, scalability, and peace of mind. More FAQs about JumpCloud: https://jumpcloud.com/faq/about-jumpcloud/#located

Directory-as-a-Service is your core IT service for authenticating, authorizing, and managing users, their systems, web and on-premise applications, and networks – all from the cloud. The center of JumpCloud’s cloud directory service is a user’s identity. That identity can be connected to a wide variety of IT resources, through a variety of mechanisms, including a lightweight agent for systems, authentication protocols (including LDAP, SAML 2.0, RADIUS, and others) for various IT resources, and RESTful APIs for custom integrations and automation. In addition, the virtual identity provider can manage security policies across all of the enterprise. As a modern cloud directory, Directory-as-a-Service enables IT admins to centralize control over their company’s environment. To learn more, you can read our blog post “What is DaaS?”, watch our JumpCloud walkthrough video, or our complete series of tutorial videos on our YouTube channel. The materials offer a good introduction on how a cloud identity management platform works. Alternatively, you can see our IDaaS solution for yourself by signing-up for a free account. More FAQs on how to get started: https://jumpcloud.com/faq/getting-started/#work-how

Registering with JumpCloud creates your ‘secure tenant’ in our cloud-based infrastructure. In the modern cloud era, we believe that the concept of the domain has changed. The assumption that a user will be logging into a network on-prem, with all of a user’s IT resources hosted there, is no longer reality. As a result, JumpCloud focuses on securely connecting users to the IT resources they need whether the resources are located on-prem, in the cloud, or remote. It also doesn’t matter where the user is. JumpCloud in a sense creates a ‘virtual domain’ where the user is connected to whatever they have rights to, but those connections span locations, providers, protocols, and platforms. Your JumpCloud tenant manages the core identities and other data related to your organization. IT resources are then bound to and authenticated against your tenant through a wide variety of protocols, including agent-based Windows/Mac/Linux system authentication, LDAP, RADIUS, SAML for application and network resources and REST APIs to do custom integrations to other resources. More general JumpCloud FAQs: https://jumpcloud.com/faq/general/#create-domain