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The Burden of Federated Authentication

  If you’ve ever had the pleasure to hear me rant on web access management then you know I like to stress the difference between authentication and authorization.  Authentication is the process of ...
Published May 23, 2016
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authentication
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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
saml
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John, yes that is a painpoint I see as well when you hit a home-realm-discovery page on an SP. I don't have a list of SaaS SPs that currently support this but I'll see if we can put one together.

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