SAML SSO Authentication Part 1

SAML SSO (Single Sign On) is used in most of the enterprise architectures as of today. We would look at SAML SSO and its significance with a demo in this post. Since it is advanced concept, we would cover this in multiple posts so that even beginners can understand this:

SAML stands for Security Assertion Markup Language: an XML framework which facilities Single Sign On Process. Go through the below video which gives a basic idea of SAML.

In the upcoming posts: we would look at the below:

Post #2: How the entire configuration is done to achieve this demo which would answer below questions:

• Here is the link: https://www.howtopega.info/2021/12/saml-sso-authentication-part-2.html

Post #3: What are the benefits we are going to get by following SAML SSO which would answer below questions:

• How Service Provider validated authenticitiy of SAML Response?
• SAML Response in place of SSO Token, how is going to benefit us over simple token like timestamp?

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