Single Sign-on: A Way to Easy Access

You have just started your personal computer or laptop, and now it is a time to open day to day tools, like  checking emails, chat, social media accounts and so on. Each day you have to interact with numbers of web applications and services, right? Many of them are already installed on your system and rest on servers that are either maintained by your organization or by the vendors. Most of the web application you used require authentication, to tell them who you are. Authentication is done so that the app can permits you to access the informations and data that belongs to you. Authentication is done to maintain your data secure so that except you, no one can access it. But sometimes you have to login to more than 2 or 3 websites, which makes the authentication process quite troublesome. Difficult is because you have to spend a lot of time only for login to the websites and most importantly you have to remember multiple username and passwords. And it is a very frustrating job to enter ID credentials each time while signing in to multiple websites of the same organization.

 

But there is a solution for each problem. Here Single Sign On software can help you out by allowing you to access multiple related websites of the same organization by entering only single username and password. It is the property of an application that is the identity provider to tell another application - service provider, who you really are.  Here identity provider refers to the system that contains user's digital identities. Users are able to access all the web services that are related to the identity providers by using single ID credentials. This makes the whole authentication seamless and quick.

 

 

With single sign-on(SSO) technique, the user does not directly login to the service provider instead he login to the identity provider and then it tells service provider who the user is. This increases security and saves users data from theft.

 

SSO makes the password management system easier for IT administrators.  By reducing the support help desk cost by reducing the number of calls associated with forgetting password requests, it helps business to make more profit. IT team also can concentrate more on other IT related tasks and users can explore more website content instead of remembering passwords. Thus, it leads to improving productivity. By saving users effort and time, SSO gives an opportunity to visit more pages of the website. This improves the user experience and user experience is directly proportional to the sales.