Single Sign-On: The Difference Between ADFS vs. LDAP

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Single Sign-On: The Difference Between ADFS vs. LDAP

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Flown anywhere lately? When you hand over your boarding pass and ID, the airline checks your name and passport number against their database so they know you’re authorized to board the plane. Now, imagine for a minute that they couldn’t access a complete directory of the passengers who bought tickets. Without that data, checking personal details would be useless, because they would have nothing to compare to. The system simply wouldn’t work.

The same thing goes for Single Sign-On (SSO). If you can’t access complete user data stored in a secure, organized way, you can’t compare that data to what a user is submitting for authentication, and you can’t verify their identity and grant access. A solid directory service is a critical prerequisite for