JumpCloud’s MSP partners are at the forefront of providing essential IT services to small and medium-sized businesses globally. In our interview series, we delve into conversations with these partners, exploring the dynamics of their MSPs and how JumpCloud plays a pivotal role in their operations. In today’s feature, we had the opportunity to speak again with Chris McKewon of Xceptional.

Every Active Directory (AD) admin is familiar with nested groups. Rights are assigned to objects by virtue of their location in the tree; that’s just how things work. It’s convenient and makes entitlement management easier… until you consider its lack of maturity for identity governance. What once worked well now increases security risks and management overhead. Cloud directories have the benefit of shedding that type of technical debt.

Short for High Availability Proxy, HAProxy is an open source and high-performance HTTP load balancer and proxying solution. It enhances website and application performance by distributing workloads across multiple backend web servers. This results in reduced response times, increased throughput, and high availability. Although HAProxy is free and open source, there is also a commercial option called HAProxy Enterprise.

Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-based technology and infrastructure, expanding the number of applications users need to access. Oversight and control over employee password policies gives organizations the ability to prevent password reuse and reduce user friction. Password managers like JumpCloud and Dashlane provide security teams with the ability to enforce password policies and store complex passwords in secure vaults.

JumpCloud certifications are now available on Credly’s digital credentialing platform. Note: Credly is an end-to-end solution for creating, issuing, and managing digital credentials used by thousands of organizations to showcase knowledge and achievements. IT professionals and JumpCloud partners can now share and monitor their JumpCloud achievements through Credly, along with any other credentials they may have.