Single signon

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Single sign-on
Mike Ladd Nazia Raoof Bret Walker Kumar
MukherjeeRajesh Radhakrishnan
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Background

• User wants to log in once
• Access multiple applications or third party sites
• Log in with his or her credentials/profile
• Business case
• corporation has 15,000 retail stores
• loose more than 1,000,000 per year
• due to high labor costs
• associated with multiple authentication,
  unnecessary user clicks, forgotten passwords,
  firewall issues

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Challenges

• Write your own SSO server?
• Myriads of interfaces to write
• Buy?
• Limited options
• Proprietary implementations
• Legacy applications, Email Solutions, Content
  Management solutions, Mainframe/Unix/Windows,
  owned solutions
• Availability of connectors
• JOSSO/SAML emerging but in infancy
• Open to whole world scenario if not carefully
  planned

• Build or Buy decisions
• Integration issues
• Still in infancy little or no standards
• High availability and Enterprise wide issues
• Service offerings vs. appropriate users
• Licensing issues

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Industries

• SSO technology is applicable to any industry
  involved in using multiple applications and
  multiple computers systems with authentication
  requirements
• Users have enough to worry about in their
  pressure-packed jobs without having to remember
  multiple passwords for multiple applications and
  multiple PC terminals that they may have to use
  at work.
• Cost are associated with users calling help desk
  for password resets
• Password inflation and security weaknesses raised
  by multiple logons.
• SSO access management infrastructure to control
  user access to its tools for product development,
  procurement and supply chain management, etc
• SSO allows users access to only applications and
  resources they have been authorized to access.

• Agriculture
• Automotive
• Transportation
• Construction
• Education
• Financial Services
• Government
• Healthcare
• Real Estate

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