How Does CloudFuze Secure Admin & End-User Authentication?
It goes without saying that authenticating clouds is one of the most important steps when migrating users and data from one cloud platform to another. If you are exploring our migration solutions and wondering how CloudFuze secures the process of admin and end-user authentication, you have come to the right guide.
Key Takeaways:
CloudFuze Secures Admin Authentication with OAuth 2.0
At CloudFuze, we use the secure OAuth 2.0 protocol to authenticate source and destination clouds via admin accounts. OAuth secures this entire authentication process by introducing a token-based access approach that prevents our migration tool (or any other migration tool) from storing admin login details like email IDs and passwords.
As a result, we do not store any type of admin login information during the cloud authentication process of any cloud migration project.
Having said that, you may also wonder why an admin’s login information is required and not of end users. Well, this is because admins (in any cloud platform) have the highest level of privileges. This means that through an admin’s account, our migration tool can read the data of all existing users to copy during migration.
Without an admin’s privileges, you’d have to authenticate all users one by one which becomes cumbersome. It becomes highly unfeasible if you have several thousands of users to migrate.
Visit our security page to learn more about our security approaches.
Admin Roles Required to Authenticate Clouds in CloudFuze Migrate
Here are the admin roles of some of the most popular cloud platforms required for cloud authentication in our tool, CloudFuze Migrate:
- Microsoft 365: Global Admin
- Google Workspace: Super Admin
- Box: Administrator
- Dropbox: Team Admin
- Slack: Workspace Admin, Org Admin
- Egnyte: Administrator
- ShareFile: Administrator
- NFS (Network File Shares): Agent Installation
Migration Processes After Cloud Authentication
After you authenticate your source and destination clouds, there are several other steps to take. Check them out below:
| Migration Stages | Migration Processes |
|---|---|
| Migration Configuration | Configuring the source and destination clouds |
| User Mapping | Auto-mapping source and destination cloud users based on their email aliases |
| Manually mapping users with the CSV method. | |
| Permissions Mapping | Reviewing the tool-generated mapping of permissions between the source and target cloud user accounts. |
| Making changes to the permissions mapping paths if required. | |
| Selecting Migration Options | Choosing metadata types to migrate, such as permissions, timestamps, versions, embedded links, etc. |
| Adding migration stakeholders’ email IDs to receive regular migration reports. | |
| Previewing the Migration | Previewing all parameters of the migration, including the source and destination clouds, destination cloud provisioning status, migration job type, and metadata selected. |
| Starting the Migration | Initiating the migration process. |
| Monitoring the Migration | Checking the Reports dashboard to actively monitor the migration. |
Migrate Your Company’s Data Securely with CloudFuze
We, at CloudFuze, are an unmatched option when it comes to world-class cloud migration security. By implementing secure admin authentication approaches like OAuth and adhering to regulations like GDPR, SOC 2 Type 2, and ISO 27001, we ensure optimal security every step of the way.
Contact us to learn more about how we can make your company’s cloud migration journey highly secure and 100% successful.
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Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the importance of admin authentication in cloud migration?
It is through admin authentication that cloud migration tools like CloudFuze Migrate can read data of all the users to the migration process. Therefore, authenticating source and destination clouds through admin accounts is highly important.
2. What is OAuth authentication?
OAuth authentication is a token-based user authentication process that prevents third-party tools to store login information, such as email IDs and passwords.
3. How does CloudFuze authenticate admins?
CloudFuze uses the secure OAuth 2.0 process to authenticate admins and source and target clouds without storing any login information. This token-based approach ensures that the tool only gets temporary access to read and copy data.
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