Secure Internet Portal

Integration

Integrating the Secure Internet Portal into an existing Web services environment is straight forward. Several different approaches are available, the best of which will depend on your current environment and future needs.

One of the preferred integration approaches is to use the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to authenticate clients to your web environment. This has a number of benefits:

it allows Single Sign On (SSO) to be easily integrated across services, providing a rich client experience
it centralises and consolidates client account information in the one place, where it can be well protected
it makes it easy to support multiple authentication processes at once, for example if you want to gradually migrate clients from username/password authentication to two-factor authentication, and
it provides flexibility to separate the authentication (Identity Provider) component from the Web service (Service Provider) components, because with SAML there is no need for these components to be co located.