INTRODUCTION TO SINGLE SIGN-ON

Centric 8 provides the ability for it to be registered as a Service Provider with an identity provider, allowing Users to have a single sign-on.

The Single Sign-on (SSO) using SAML feature consists of the following:

1. User Authentication utilizing single login portal for one or more services

2. The following are the three main actors:

• User: Uses a service that requires login

• Identity Provider (Idp): An authority that creates, maintains and manages identity information for users and provides authentication to service providers within a federation or distributed network

• Service Provider (SP): An application that provides some service to an end user.

3. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an XML based protocol for securely communicating authentication and identity information in a federated environment.

4. IdPs and SPs communicate with each other using SAML encoded messages.

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For more information on SSO Login, refer Centric 8 Installation Guide, Appendix Section P:Single Sign-On (SSO) with SAML 2.0..