Re: Mobile Apps: Authentication?

[Kevin Shalla <kshalla () UIC EDU>]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but why do people want to create mobile 
apps?  Why not simply develop Web sites that have a mobile CSS style 
sheet built in them?

On 3/15/2011 11:33 AM, Theresa Rowe wrote:
> I'm interested in this too.  I am specifically separating mobile app 
> from mobile web site in this discussion.  While we have supported 
> development of mobile web sites that have logins to critical systems, 
> we have not deployed apps yet that support logins to critical 
> systems.  We have an app development project underway that will be 
> consumer information in orientation, and we've specifically excluded 
> anything involving authentication with our LDAP directory because we 
> do not know enough about security implementation in that environment.  
> I think our first entries into this area will be with vendor supplied 
> products.
>
> Theresa Rowe
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Martin Manjak <mm376 () albany edu 
> <mailto:mm376 () albany edu>> wrote:
>
>     As the great mobile migration accelerates, I wonder if anyone has
>     deployed an app that has an authentication component.
>
>     I know certain schools have developed (or bought?) custom apps for
>     their
>     campuses that provide maps, dining hall menus, etc.
>
>     I writing to the list to see if anyone has
>     developed/deployed/purchased
>     a mobile app that integrates into a CMS, for example. Or any IT
>     service
>     that requires authentication.
>
>     I realize that people can use the mobile phone browser to submit
>     credentials via the traditional portal or web-based authentication
>     methods. I don't think the security issues in those cases are any
>     different from using a laptop.
>
>     But it would be interesting to see if anyone has written a native app
>     for a mobile platform that addresses the authentication process.
>
>     Marty
>
>     --
>     Martin Manjak
>     Information Security Officer
>     University at Albany
>     CISSP, GSEC, GCWN
>
>     "What information consumes...is the attention of its recipients."
>     Herbert Simon, 1971
>
>
>
>
> --
> Theresa Rowe
> Chief Information Officer
> Oakland University