Securing the Perimeter: Deploying Identity and Access Management with Free Open Source Software

© Michael Schwartz, Maciej Machulak 2018

Michael Schwartz and Maciej MachulakSecuring the Perimeterhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2601-8_3

3. SAML

Michael Schwartz¹  and Maciej Machulak²

(1)

Austin, TX, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

By the late 1990s, people were starting to get tired of entering the same username and password on different websites. LDAP helped organizations implement “single-password,” but didn’t enable web “single sign-on” (SSO). While some vendors were offering solutions for web SSO, SAML—the Security Assertion Markup Language—emerged as one of the first standards to enable a person to authenticate once and access websites both inside and outside their organization. The use case of a person accessing websites outside their home domain came ...