This checklist is designed to offer guidance to decision makers in enterprises, small and mid-tier organizations, government agencies or other organizations to assess single sign-on (SSO) systems, as well for SSO developers to ensure that they have provided is equipped to detect the possibilities of exchanging identification and authentication credentials.
This checklist will provide you with:
- The most important metrics to consider
- Making sure that your SSO system is fully SSO enabled
- A handy matrix form for you to see what each vendor has to offer
Checklist for Single Sign-on Systems
| Key Metrics | Does the SSO Support |
| Application Integration | On-premises
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| Community Support |
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| End users or customers |
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| Password Vaulting vs True SSO |
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| Open Standards |
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| Mobile Users |
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| Meet Security regulatory compliance |
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| Disaster Recovery Availability |
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| High usability features |
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| Enterprise access |
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| Authentication |
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| Authorization Management |
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| Integration features |
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| Federation |
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| Password rules |
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| Developer Support -custom apps and third party systems |
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| Compliance based reporting |
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| User Behaviour Analytics (UBA) |
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| Data processing model |
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