{"id":5983,"date":"2013-02-19T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/feb\/19\/analysing-the-evolution-of-single-sign-on\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:30:00","slug":"analysing-the-evolution-of-single-sign-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/analysing-the-evolution-of-single-sign-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysing the evolution of single sign-on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Replacing mainframes with 21st century identity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Paul Madsen, senior technical architect<\/p>\n<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.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing users to authenticate once to gain access to enterprise applications improves access security and user productivity by reducing the need for passwords.<\/p>\n<p>In 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&rsquo;s, 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&rsquo;s focus was on integrating applications exclusively within the network perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>However, as enterprises shifted toward cloud-based services at the turn of the century and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications became more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replacing mainframes with 21st century identity<br \/>\nBy Paul Madsen, senior technical architect<br \/>\nThe 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}