Authentication (Process - IAM)

Manage SSO

1.0 DRAFT

IAM

• Improved User Experience (IAM Goal) +++

• Costs Efficiency (IAM Goal) ++

• Information Security Resilience (IAM Goal) ++

• Productivity Gains (IAM Goal) ++

Streamline the authentication process by enabling reuse of authentication results across multiple systems thus enhancing user experience, reducing efforts from relying parties and strengthening security

• Organization policies

• IT Systems

• IT Change Management

• IT Project Management

• Design SSO

• Deploy SSO

• Maintain SSO

• Optimize SSO

IT Systems that reuse centralized or federated authentication

• The deployment of SSO reinforces security, even though it may marginally increase risk in certain circumstances, e.g. when an identity is compromised (/wiki/spaces/QUOT/pages/76021898). This risk is typically offset by the concomitant implementation of MFA.

• Sloppily implemented SSO may weaken security.

• Enterprise Single Sign-On (Dictionary Entry)

• Federated SSO (Dictionary Entry)

• Multidomain Single Sign-On (Dictionary Entry)

• Single Sign-On (Dictionary Entry)

• Web-based Single Sign-On (Dictionary Entry)