How is system integration into a ‘single-sign-on’ environment achieved?
Where user workstations are already authenticated to the network the browser will automatically pass the Windows security principle ID to the Framework which will in turn use this to authenticate the user against the LDAP store.
Factonomy is also able to use SAML (Security Assertion Mark-up Language) in authenticating connections from the system server to other data providers typically using web services and XML.
FAQs - Authentication
- What are the available authentication mechanisms?
- Where is authentication data stored?
- Is stored authentication data encrypted?
- How is system integration into a ‘single-sign-on’ environment achieved?
- What directory services can the system interface with?
- How is authentication handled in Client Access Mode?
- How is authentication handled in Web access mode?
- How is network traffic encrypted?
- How are firewalls dealt with?
- How is data encrypted in a typical Intranet?
