SSO (Single Sign-On) Products

• Definition - Single Sign-on (SSO) a software authentication product that enables a user to authenticate once and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems.
  (Additional notes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on )
  • E-SSO - Enterprise Single Sign-on - (legacy single sign-on) - uses screen scraping to auto login when prompted by other applications.
  • Web-SSO - Web Single Sign-on - (Web access management (WEB-AM)) - if a person tries to access a web resource without having logged in, then the user is taken to an authentication service.
• MS IIS
  • http://www.cafesoft.com/ - a Web SSO product.