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Wrap-up

SSO and federated identity management are necessary to ensure effective identity and access management.
Let’s wrap-up what you have learned.

  • SSO is concerned with ‘login’ and, historically, within a single domain
  • Identity federation and federation identity management is concerned with a complete identity and seeks to provision this identity across multiple systems
  • Both SSO and federated identity management are increasingly popular and necessary technologies that help to address complex environments and cloud-based solutions
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Cyber Security Foundations: Reinforcing Identity and Access Management

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