Three types of single sign on

Three Types of Single Sign­On Customers love getting recognized as one single and the same person by all the web properties owned by a single business which means the business must be able to create unified view of their customers. This also means that changes made by customers in one of the web property must be reflected in the others as well. Having a single customer view is an important milestone to unified user experience. Single Sign­On is one such solution that helps businesses create a unified customer view and maintain the continuity in user experience.

But it would be stupid to say that one type of single sign­on solution works universally! Different types of environment require businesses to implement different types of single sign­on, although the end purpose is the same ­ convenience and unified customer view! This article will focus on the different types of Single Sign­on :

1. Enterprise Single Sign­On : As the name explains, enterprise sso basically works for the enterprise wide implementation. In general, enterprise sso requires to install sso agent on the every local workstation and completes the automate login process. The only requirement is that the access request must come from the earlier registered workstation.

2. Web Single Sign­On : One of the most common SSO type is Web SSO. Due to reasons mentioned above, an enterprise SSO can’t work for a general consumer business that intends for the use by its customers only. In Web SSO, you don’t need to install SSO Agent locally on the client terminal, the reason being customers are distributed across various channels and that’s why can ask for access from anywhere. The only thing that needs to be taken care of while using Web SSO is that the access requests must come from the same terminal and same browser. Request coming from different browser or computer is treated as a separate session.

3. Mobile Single Sign­On : Typically same as web sso, the only place where mobile sso differs from Web SSO is that Mobile SSO can be implemented in the mobile environment for eg when a customer mentioned above is requesting access from the mobile device.

So friends, these are the three types of Single Sign­On, though Web Single Sign­On is the most popular one among the three, it can’t be said as a universal solution. With web going from desktop to mobile, businesses need a Single Sign­On Solution that can work across the channels and provide unified customer experience without compromising security.

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