Manual Chapter :
Configuring Single Sign-On with Access Policy Manager
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BIG-IP APM
- 14.0.1, 14.0.0
Configuring Single Sign-On with Access Policy Manager
What is Single Sign-On?
Access Policy Manager provides a Single Sign-On (SSO) feature that
leverages the credential caching and credential proxying technology.
Credential caching and proxying
is a two-phase security approach that asks users
to enter their credentials once to access their secured web applications. By leveraging this
technology, users request access to the secured back-end web server. After that occurs, Access
Policy Manager creates a user session and collects the user identity based on the access policy.
When the access policy completes successfully, the user identity is saved (cached) in a session
database. Access Policy Manager subsequently reuses the cached identity to seamlessly log the
user into the secured web applications, thus providing the user with a single sign-on experience. The Single Sign-On (SSO) feature provides the following benefits:
- Eliminates the need to administer and maintain multiple user logins
- Eliminates the need for users to enter their credentials multiple times.
