Systems & integration

SSO / SAML

Single Sign-On / Security Assertion Markup Language · sso · saml · saml 2.0 · oidc

TL;DR

Federated authentication — users sign in once to the corporate IdP and the application receives a signed assertion. SAML 2.0 and OIDC are the two dominant standards.

Single Sign-On lets users authenticate once to their corporate Identity Provider (Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Ping, JumpCloud, ADFS) and access multiple applications without re-entering credentials. SAML 2.0 (XML-based) is the legacy enterprise standard; OpenID Connect (OIDC, JSON/OAuth-based) is the modern equivalent.

For GxP systems, SSO matters because it centralises offboarding (revoke the IdP account, lose access everywhere), enforces corporate MFA, and produces a stronger audit trail. V5 supports SAML 2.0 SSO on the Validated Enterprise tier.

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