Upgrading Legacy System to OAuth 2.0 for a Leading CRO

Technology and innovation evolve rapidly, and businesses are trying to adopt these market trends at a faster pace. Identity and access management serve as the foundational security measures for every organization. Recognizing its utmost importance, IT teams need to enhance their identity and authentication systems with advanced features to address vulnerabilities in the infrastructure effectively. This proactive approach ensures robust protection and helps safeguard against potential security breaches.

In this success story, you can discover how our identity experts upgraded the client’s legacy authentication system to OAuth 2.0 by slashing the dependencies on custom-built files. The best part about our transformation solution is we have migrated the SOAP driver to REST without any impact on the web services.

Get to know the client & their business challenges

The client wanted to assess their existing identity infrastructure and upgrade their identity management system with best practices. We stepped forward and analyzed their existing drivers that are leveraged to send & receive web service requests. These web services are critical as they are used to manage the user lifecycle in an application. As these drivers had dependencies with custom files & legacy authentication systems, they opened the doors for vulnerabilities in the endpoint. Moreover, these drivers exhibit sluggish performance and require significant effort, resources, and bandwidth for the creation and transmission of XML requests.

As a result, the client made the decision to adopt our recommended best practices and upgrade their drivers to enhance their overall security posture.

Our solution to the client with the IAM Transformation service

The team at zeb connected with the client and took the time to understand their business requirements. We recommended the driver migration to modernize their authentication system with orchestrated application infrastructure.

Our team analyzed the existing application architecture and recommended the best possible solutions by leveraging OAuth 2.0 with lightweight communication.
We recommended migrating the SOAP driver to REST for its compatibility with various authentication methods such as OAuth 2.0. In addition, the REST driver can independently connect with endpoints without any custom files.
We changed the input format from XML to JSON for the effortless formation of service requests with the help of key-value pairs.
We stepped forward to implement the best practice of maintaining logs for different drivers that consume API endpoints. This slashed their efforts in terms of troubleshooting the bugs.
From migrating their legacy authentication system to OAuth 2.0 and orchestrating their driver requests to independent architecture, our experts implemented the best possible identity solutions.

Business gains for the client

The client experienced flexibility, scalability, and enhanced security in terms of their authentication system by migrating to the REST driver with minimal resources.
The JSON web service requests reduced their efforts greatly.
With our API log management practices, the team could resolve the vulnerabilities in their web service with minimal effort.
They had no more hassles of interdependencies in web service drivers and framing complex XML requests.

Let us make IAM transformation simple for you.

Our IAM experts can build a complete IAM ecosystem from scratch or transform the existing system based on the business needs. With our customized security solutions, your IT teams could reduce the overhead management tasks.

Do you face similar issues in applications? What are you waiting for?

Reach out to our team at zeb and deliver best-in-class security solutions for your platforms.