Sso Glossary

Browse 5 sso terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

5 Sso Terms

Identity Provider
Identity Provider is a service that authenticates users and issues identity assertions or tokens to relying applications. Security teams use it to enforce...
IDP
Short for identity provider, the service that authenticates users and issues assertions or tokens to relying applications in federated login systems. An IdP is...
Just-in-Time Provisioning
An identity pattern where an account or access relationship is created automatically at the moment of first successful authentication rather than being...
Keycloak
An open-source identity and access-management platform used for authentication, SSO, and user federation.
SAML
Security Assertion Markup Language, an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data. It shows up in application security, identity,...

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