December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard developed for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, specifically between an Identity Provider (IdP) and a Service Provider (SP).
SAML is based on the XML-based markup language used for security assertions, which are basically statements that a service provider uses to decide on the various access control-based decisions.
One of the primary use cases of SAML is about achieving a web-based SSO. Generally, an SSO is quite easy to establish, specifically within a security domain with the help of cookies; however, generally during the time it comes to cross-domain-based authentication, this approach becomes quite a challenge. ...
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