<p>Single sign on technology may have been primarily perceived as tool of expediency in the past, but if results from a survey out today hold true things have changed. IT professionals are reporting that security trumps ease-of-use and operational convenience as the top motive behind SSO deployments today. But security experts warn that in order to achieve that security objective organizations need to shore up the authentication and access control processes that power SSO front-end technology, while establishing secure means to bridging identities between on-premises and cloud applications.</p><p>[Are your misconceptions coloring how you view SSO? See Single Sign-On Mythbusting.]</p><p>"Over the last few years SSO has really been more about convenience--organizations were really looking to basically ease the burden of having all these different applications that their employees need to access," says Brian Czarny, vice president of marketing for Symplified. "That's really flipped around whereby these organizations say its about security and really wanting to look at how they can regain more visibility and control over these applications."</p><p>In a survey conducted on behalf of Symplified by Qualtrics, 70% of the 200 IT decision makers questioned reported security as a motive for deploying SSO. That's compared to just 51% who named IT resource reduction and 49% who cited user convenience as motives.</p><p><a href="http://www.darkreading.com/identity-and-access-management/167901114/security/news/240149098/is-single-sign-on-a-security-tool.html">Keep reading...</a></p>