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 latest 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. In larger organizations, IT and Security teams often think they need two SSO solutions: one to control access to on-premises apps—Web Access Management (WAM)—and a second one to control access to the cloud—Identity as a Service. However, this is not true. Using a single SSO solution for both on-premises and cloud system, aka Hybrid IT, saves time and money. Providing users secure and consistent access to all systems is not a new thing, it’s been a challenge since the mid 90s/2000s. To address this challenge in the past, many companies.
