single sign-on
A method of account authentication that allows a person to log in once and be granted access to several systems within the enterprise.
IT Asset Management supports integration with a variety of tools ("identity providers") that allow for single sign-on. The requirement is that the identity providers must comply with the SAML 2.0 standard. For more information, see the Authentication chapter in IT Asset Management System Reference, available at https://docs.flexera.com/.
The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) also allows for federated authentication, which means the sharing of identities between separate enterprises. A widely-known example is using your Google or Facebook account to authenticate access to a separate application, such as a diary. However, within IT Asset Management, we are concerned only with the subset of functionality that is single sign-on within your enterprise.
A limitation of the underlying library (Kentor.AuthServices) means that SAML authentication for IT Asset Management cannot support Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS).