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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
authorization
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
saml
security
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May 28, 2016
Hi, From my side, I'm using persistent cookies that contains the email address. So that, when reaching the IDP discovery process, the system read the email information directly from the cookie value. Thus, the user just set it's login information once on the IDP. It's not a silver bullet but help a lot in the user experience

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