SAP Single Sign-On

Multiple different passwords are not always more secure

Many users begin their workday by logging into their company computer, followed by additional authentication processes for each of the various applications and systems that they need for their daily work. When faced with so many logins, it is far too easy for a user to lose track of which password goes where. To make matters worse, many systems require passwords to be changed every few weeks. To prevent themselves from forgetting their passwords, some users keep them written down on a post-it on their monitor or under their keyboard. Others simply forget their passwords again and again. Then the employee has to contact the help desk to submit a password reset request, costing the company time and money. The SSO technology by SAP helps to solve these issues by allowing users to log in to a large number of systems with a single authentication step. It also provides an additional layer of security by encrypting the communications between the user and the application.

Both employees and the company benefit from one-time authentication

SAP SSO reduces the daily login steps performed by each employee to a single one-time authentication process on their PC. Using a variety of supported SSO technologies, such as Kerberos, SAML, and X.509 certificates, the SSO solution developed by SAP passes this PC login to each of the other systems, avoiding the need for any additional username and password prompts. This is good for both the users and the company in several ways. The users no longer need to remember multiple sets of login details for different systems and are no longer asked to re-enter them repeatedly. This improves security and is faster. Businesses benefit from better security, and save time (and money) on password resets and login screens.