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Single sign-on and federation

Single sign-on and federation

From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 5 Identity and Access Management

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Single sign-on and federation

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- [Instructor] Identification and authentication can be an annoying process for end users and difficult to manage for organizations. The concepts of federation and single sign-on seek to reduce some of this burden. Federated identity management leverages the fact that a single individual may have accounts across a wide variety of systems. When organizations agree to federate their identity management systems, they share some of this information across the systems. This reduces the number of individual identities that a user must have and eases the burden on both the user and the organization. You're probably already familiar with some federated identity management systems. When you log onto websites using your Google account, Facebook or Twitter account, you're using federated identity management. Single sign-on goes a step further and shares authenticated sessions across systems. Many organizations create single sign-on…

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