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Federation and SSO

Federation and SSO

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Federation and SSO

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- Federated access refers to a framework that allows organizations to establish trust relationships with external parties. If you've been around a while, you might remember back in the day, we would have active directory forests and we could have trust relationships one way trust, transitive trust between different domains in that forest, and we still do it today, and that's a common use case or a common example of federated access. We're enabling users from one domain or one part of our business, our business unit or organizational unit, to access resources in another domain without needing separate credentials or creating duplicate user accounts in each domain. So for example, this is kind of a classic where you have a client trust realm and a service trust realm. This could be a Kerberos realm, this could be, you know, active directory domains in a forest. These could be a service provider and a identity provider. So what you have and is an end user in enterprise A, and they're…

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