Comments on: Has Single Sign-On Arrived? http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/09/27/has-single-sign-on-arrived/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:31:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Dave Walker http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/09/27/has-single-sign-on-arrived/#comment-2832 Dave Walker Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:02:00 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/09/27/has-single-sign-on-arrived/#comment-2832 ...and when some or all of these decide that they need to handle data at multiple protective markings, where the value of having SSO increases, I'll be ready and waiting: http://blogs.sun.com/davew/entry/a_holy_grail_non_web :-). It's also worth mentioning, whether they all have the same idea of what SSO actually is - I've always considered it to be "once you're authenticated to the system for a session, you do not need to authenticate to any other systems in order to do your job". Some other folk consider password synchronisation, as provided by various folks' Identity Management products, to be SSO; I disagree. …and when some or all of these decide that they need to handle data at multiple protective markings, where the value of having SSO increases, I’ll be ready and waiting: http://blogs.sun.com/davew/entry/a_holy_grail_non_web :-).

It’s also worth mentioning, whether they all have the same idea of what SSO actually is - I’ve always considered it to be “once you’re authenticated to the system for a session, you do not need to authenticate to any other systems in order to do your job”. Some other folk consider password synchronisation, as provided by various folks’ Identity Management products, to be SSO; I disagree.

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