SAML – Client versus Server Authentication with F5 APM

As organizations start to utilize Software as a Service (SaaS) the concern on how to authenticate users becomes a critical security issue. Many organizations look to federated authentication mechanis...
Published Jul 03, 2014
Version 1.0
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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Ernesto_Mayol_2
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May 21, 2015
I am looking for a way to authenticate external clients using SAML or Certificate based Auth and then be able to automatically authenticate them to applications that only support NTLM. Based on all the reading that I have done so far that is not possible as the user password seems to be a must to be able to perform NTLM auth, but I wanted to bring up the question anyway to see if there is something I am not aware of to address this scenario. Thanks.