Single sign-on
Single sign-on (SSO) is basically a property of an access control mechanism that would allow users to log in with single credentials and gain access to all the connected yet independent software systems within the organizations.
Let's understand the benefits of what an SSO provides in an organization, with a real-world use case:
In one of the organizations that I used to work with, we had around nine services that would need an authentication to log in. Some of these services included emails, server credentials, HR applications, internal trackers, GIT, Jira, AWS, and many others. In the earlier use case, there were nine different credentials for each of the nine services, and on top of this, as per the password policy and compliance ...
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