Single Sign On — The quickest way to access your account

What is SSO or single sign on? There may be many questions arising in the minds of youngsters and people who do not have much explore to corporate world. Well if you don’t know, it is a software already implemented by most of the corporates. SSO provides the user to access multiple accounts without remembering the password needed to access those different accounts.

The software uses the LDAP i.e. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and this LDAP database is stored on servers.The basic version can me made on IP networks by using cookies. But this can be done only if, the sites you are accessing contains similar DNS domain.

By using this software you will only require single authentication to access multiple accounts for different applications.

Certain benefits for using the software are All the risks involved in the process will be transferred to third party sites. You can avoid the stress of remembering the complicated passwords for different accounts. Reduce time consumption in signing in into each account

Lastly you can reduce the cost involved by lowering the number of desk help regarding password issues.

Initially there were some security issues reported by researchers but slowly over a period of time, these drawbacks were rectified.