Crowd is an application security framework that handles authentication and authorisation for your web-based applications. With Crowd you can quickly integrate multiple web applications into a single security architecture that supports single sign-on (SSO) and centralised identity management.
Crowd has the following components:
Designed for ease of use, Crowd can be deployed with your existing infrastructure. Crowd supports:
See the list of supported applications and directories.
Crowd is a middleware application that integrates web applications into a single security architecture, supporting single sign-on and centralised identity management. Crowd works by dispatching authentication and authorisation calls from configured applications to configured directories.
A typical deployment may be similar to the following:
When an application needs to validate a security or authentication request (e.g. when a user attempts to log in to the application) the application will make a simple API call to the Crowd framework, which will then forward the call to the appropriate directory.