At Okta, we are highly invested in the latest ideas and practices around authentication and security—and that requires some myth busting. This blog is the second in a series of posts meant to tackle common misunderstandings and myths around single sign-on (SSO). See below for our full list of the myths we've seen (and busted!) around SSO. Single sign-on solutions are sometimes criticised for introducing a single point of failure into the authentication process. In reality, a single point of failure already exists: the user. Login credentials exist to keep accounts secure, but they pose a problem in modern companies where users access many applications every day. When forced to constantly juggle different credentials, it’s only natural that people being to suffer from password fatigue. Single sign-on (SSO) simplifies the login experience by giving users access to multiple applications with a single login. However, this also raises an.
