{"id":1649,"date":"2008-09-30T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/09\/30\/saas-single-sign-on-with-opensso\/"},"modified":"2008-09-30T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T19:51:10","slug":"saas-and-opensso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/09\/30\/saas-and-opensso\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS Single Sign-On with OpenSSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently talked with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/superpat\/\">Pat &#8220;The Knees&#8221; Patterson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/raskin\/\">Daniel &#8220;The Smoking Monkey&#8221; Raskin<\/a> of Sun Microsystems. They&#8217;d applied the use of the open source single sign-on project, <a href=\"https:\/\/opensso.dev.java.net\/\">OpenSSO<\/a> to tie together the login process between Google Apps, SalesForce.com, other SaaS services, and the local corporate network. You just sign in once to your Windows login, and you don&#8217;t need to sign in again.<\/p>\n<h2>Life-cycle Management<\/h2>\n<p>Also key here to companies is more control over the full life-cycle of what users have access to: not only can you setup new users to have one sign in (or, &#8220;provision&#8221; them), but as needed you can remove access (&#8220;de-provision&#8221;), making sure that employees and former employees can&#8217;t muck around with things they shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The video comes in three parts: an interview about the service and a general discussion of Identity 2.0, followed by a demonstration, and then a bonus demo of the Java Web Start enabled packaging available for OpenSSO:<\/p>\n<h2>Interview &#8211; Federated SaaS\/Behind-the-firewall Identity &amp; Identity 2.0<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Demo of SaaS Single sign-on<\/h2>\n<p class=\"video embed\">\n<p>(Be sure to click the fullscreen button for a larger version if you need it.)<\/p>\n<h2>Installing OpenSSO quickly with Java Web Start<\/h2>\n<p class=\"video embed\">\n<p>(Be sure to click the fullscreen button for a larger version if you need it.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Sun sponsored these videos and is a client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently talked with Pat &#8220;The Knees&#8221; Patterson and Daniel &#8220;The Smoking Monkey&#8221; Raskin of Sun Microsystems. They&#8217;d applied the use of the open source single sign-on project, OpenSSO to tie together the login process between Google Apps, SalesForce.com, other SaaS services, and the local corporate network. You just sign in once to your Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,27],"tags":[568,664],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-identity","category-redmonktv","tag-opensso","tag-saas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}