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Central Arizona Project Selects MetaPass as Single-Sign-On Solution.


Arizona Agency Increases Security and Productivity With MetaPass' Patented Technology

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- MetaPass, Inc. today announced the integration and deployment of its revolutionary, virtualization-based, universal single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password.  (SSO See single sign-on and CSO.

SSO - single sign-on
) solution at Central Arizona Project (CAP). After thorough evaluation of SSO solutions, CAP picked MetaPass for its technological superiority and ease of use and integration. The access to all of the organization's applications has now been consolidated, delivering a true 100% single sign-on experience to the agency's employees.

"We have looked at SSO solutions but those were overly complicated to use and didn't integrate with many of our systems," said Phil Cook, IT Applications & Systems Supervisor at CAP. "MetaPass, on the other hand, integrated quickly and effortlessly ef·fort·less  
adj.
Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy.



effort·less·ly adv.
 with all of our target systems, even the most complex ones."

MetaPass Universal SSO is the next generation Enterprise Single-Sign-On and is completely non-invasive. In addition to integrating universally with any and all target applications, it also connects without any infrastructure change to any LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory.  directory, any SPML-compliant provisioning system, and virtually any strong authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC.

(2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network.
 device such as smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. , biometrics, and more.

About MetaPass, Inc.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, MetaPass provides the industry's only universal identity and access management software that does not require scripting or programming for total customer integration. Enterprises and governments around the world benefit from MetaPass patented technologies to control and simplify access to their digital assets, strengthen security, and comply with regulations.
1230 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 306
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
+1-408-907-3991
http://www.metapass.com


About CAP

Central Arizona Project is designed to bring about 1.5 million acre-feet of Colorado River Colorado River

River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas.
 water per year to Pima, Pinal and Maricopa counties. CAP carries water from Lake Havasu near Parker to the southern boundary of the San Xavier Indian Reservation The San Xavier Indian Reservation is located near Tucson, Arizona in the Sonoran Desert. It is the smaller eastern section of the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation, the homeland of the tribe known as the Tohono O'odham Nation.  southwest of Tucson. It is a 336-mile long system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines and is the largest single resource of renewable water supplies in the state of Arizona.
23636 N 7th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85024
+1-623.869.2333
http://www.cap-az.com/
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