Federated Single Sign-on

As enterprises interact electronically with each other, the number user accounts an organization must maintain will grow. Not only will an enterprise need to maintain access accounts for its own employees, but also the employees of external organizations that need to obtain access to a service. Conversely, for an organization wishing to access another’s services, their users will need to begin maintaining additional credentials.
A federated single sign on solution facilitates password-less authentication for business to business interactions. A federated single sign on solution may provide an enterprise with an authentication solution that can allow a user to authenticate internally and seamlessly access external services. Alternatively, a federated single sign on solution may allow an organization to allow their web applications to operate in a Single Sign On mode and not require a username/password authentication.

Related Products

SecureAuth
The SecureAuth Identity Enforcement Platform (IEP) provides a single source of authentication for an enterprise. IEP can leverage an existing directory service (e.g. Microsoft Active Directory) for username / password based authentication and complement it with token-less Two-Factor Strong Authentication. SecureAuth IEP can integrate with your VPN and many of your internal and cloud based web applications.
Once authenticated a user access external web services being offered by another organization without needing to re-authenticate.

Ping Identity
PingFederate, from Ping Identity, can be used to supply or consume federated authentication information. As an identity provider, PingFederate can leverage internal systems including Active Directory, Oracle Access Manager, SAP NetWeaver, and CA SiteMinder for authentication. The user’s identity can then be supplied to an external enterprise for single sign on.
As a service provider, PingFederate can be used to consume federated single sign on information and allow a web application to make use of it. PingFederate can integrate with the following environments to integrate with web applications – Apache, Citrix, IBM TAM, IIS, SharePoint, SAP NetWeaver, CA SiteMinder, WebSphere.