{"id":5769,"date":"2013-02-07T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2533076"},"modified":"2013-02-07T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:53:00","slug":"the-evolution-of-single-sign-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-evolution-of-single-sign-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Single Sign-on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of single sign-on (SSO) is not a new one, and over the years it has successfully bridged the gap between security and productivity for organizations all over the globe.<br \/>\nAllowing users to authenticate once to gain access to enterprise applications improves access security and user productivity by reducing the need for passwords.<br \/>\nIn the days of mainframes, SSO was used to help maintain productivity and security from inside the protection of firewalls. As organizations moved to custom-built authentication systems in the 1990\u2019s, it became recognized as enterprise SSO (ESSO) and later evolved into browser-based plugin or web-proxy methods known as web access management (WAM). IT\u2019s focus was on integrating applications exclusively within the network perimeter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2533076\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of single sign-on (SSO) is not a new one, and over the years it has successfully bridged the gap between security and productivity for organizations all over the globe.<br \/>\nAllowing users to authenticate once to gain access to enterprise applic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}