In today’s enterprise landscape, identity is the new security perimeter. Whether your users are connecting to SaaS platforms, internal web apps, or mainframe systems, every login is a potential vulnerability—or an opportunity to enforce trust.
The combination of Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) has emerged as the gold standard for enterprise authentication. When implemented together, they do more than secure access—they unify it. This isn’t just a security upgrade; it’s a transformation in how users interact with your systems.
SSO enables users to authenticate once and move seamlessly between applications without juggling passwords. MFA strengthens that access by requiring an additional form of verification, whether it is a time sensitive one-time password, a biometric factor, a mobile notification, or a hardware token.
Together, SSO and MFA offer a streamlined, high-security authentication flow that’s scalable across hybrid environments—from cloud-native apps to legacy mainframe systems. Integration with identity providers like Azure AD, Okta, and Keycloak ensures centralized control, while support for standards like SAML and OpenID Connect keeps everything compliant and future-ready.
By unifying your access strategy across platforms, your organization benefits in measurable ways:
This is how modern authentication should feel: fast, secure, invisible—and enterprise-grade.
Mainframe systems remain essential to enterprise operations—but they’ve historically stood apart from modern security frameworks. That ends now. With a modern host access and interoperability solution, you can bring your IBM Z environments into full alignment with your identity infrastructure. Using a modern, IP-based solutions - 3270 applications can be launched securely in a browser, authenticated by enterprise identity providers, and protected by multi-factor policies—all without touching a line of legacy code.
MFA can be tightly integrated with RACF and IBM Z MFA. PassTicket support, TLS encryption, and geographic- or context-aware access rules ensure that every mainframe session—TSO, CICS, IMS or any other IBM Z environment—is protected by the same rigorous controls as any modern cloud platform.
Your users stay productive. Your auditors stay satisfied. Your infrastructure stays secure.
Virtel offers a secure, browser-based solution that integrates SSO and MFA across IBM mainframe and contemporary environments. This enables enterprises to implement modern identity and authentication processes throughout their organization, without the risk of disrupting any of their mission-critical systems.
Discover more about Virtel’s security features here.