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What Does Identity Provider Actually Mean?

What Does Identity Provider Actually Mean?

When it comes to online security and authentication, the term "Identity Provider" is often thrown around. But what does it actually mean? In simple terms, an Identity Provider (IdP) is a trusted service that authenticates and verifies the identity of users and provides them with access to protected

What Does SAML Actually Mean?

What Does SAML Actually Mean?

Amongst the various acronyms and abbreviations in the world of authentication, SAML, which stands for Security Assertion Markup Language, is one of the most confusing. So here we’ll walk through what is involved in SAML SSO and paint a clearer picture of what it actually means. First, a brief

What Does SSO Actually Mean?

What Does SSO Actually Mean?

Before answering the question at hand, you should know that you’ve probably used SSO already. Any time you’ve signed up for or logged into a product using a Google or Facebook or other social account, you’ve been using SSO. SSO stands for "Single Sign-On", and

ELI5: SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an authentication feature that grants users access to different company web applications using their employee login credentials.

Why B2B Companies Waste More Time on Authentication

Why B2B Companies Waste More Time on Authentication

B2B companies have a lot of additional user authentication needs than B2C. You start with an organization ID and an invitation flow, and slowly you are adding roles and self-service UIs, and org-aware middleware.

Azure AD SAML Connections in One Click

Azure AD SAML Connections in One Click

SAML enables our customers to provide Enterprise SSO within their products in a single click. Earlier this week we launched with support for many of the other top identity providers, like Okta, JumpCloud, and OneLogin and are happy to add Azure AD to the list.

PropelAuth Launches Self-service SAML

PropelAuth Launches Self-service SAML

We’re excited to say that our SAML (also called Enterprise SSO) implementation is out of beta and now available to all our customers! This feature allows your customers to log in to your product using their existing identity provider, like Okta, Google, OneLogin, and more.

Step-by-step Guide to Add SSO with Microsoft

Step-by-step Guide to Add SSO with Microsoft

Logging in with an SSO provider like Microsoft, Google, Github, etc. provides one of the lowest friction ways of signing up new users, but requires your users to have an account with one of those providers.

Sign In and Account Merges with Slack

Sign In and Account Merges with Slack

PropelAuth manages the entire OAuth flow so all you have to do is enter some basic information and your users can sign in with Slack. These accounts are not special. If you have already integrated, you don't need to change your code at all to work with Slack.