SSO Technologies and Definitions

SSO. A property by which users logs in, authenticate and verify credentials once and access multiple Independent systems.

ADFS. ADFS is a component in Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 R2 that provides Web single-sign-on (SSO) technologies to authenticate a user to multiple Web applications over the life of a single online session.

SAML. An XML based open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between Identity Provider and Service Provider.

Active Directory Federation Services.

Claims : Identity (UPN, Email, Common Name), Group (Developer, Tester), Custom (Employee ID Number).

Account Partner – AP : Reply to queries from RP by collecting and verifying user credentials from AD and by sending Security Token in response.

Resource Partner – RP : Identify AP, Request Authentication and Verify Security Token.

Account Store: AD, ADAM.