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Why You Need Single Sign-On (SSO)
Today’s workforce leverages many applications. The average employee has access to 35 unique apps, while some organizations manage hundreds. Organizations of all sizes must manage multiple usernames and passwords due to the widespread usage of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. This can be frustrating for employees and taxing on Information Technology (IT) teams.
According to a recent global survey Duo conducted of IT professionals and end users spanning thousands of respondents, 51% of end users forget or reset a password every week, 57% respondents noted that they reuse passwords across multiple sites, and 78% of respondents create new passwords by adding a number or symbol to the end of an old password. Each of these password-related challenges can exacerbate the security risk of compromised credentials which play a role in the majority of breaches, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
SSO can help users and IT teams work more efficiently. It not only reduces the burden placed on the end user to create and manage multiple passwords, but also alleviates the hassle of remembering and resetting passwords for all the apps being accessed for work. Essentially, SSO reduces password fatigue.
Users only need one set of credentials, such as their corporate email and password, to log in the first time (during a session) to the SSO portal and subsequently gain access to internal applications as policy permits. Security admins can create flexible security policies for any app. Plus, helpdesk teams can significantly reduce time spent helping users reset passwords as often, or at all, for many apps. This saves IT departments time and money and allows them to focus on other high-priority business initiatives.
5 Things To Look For in a SSO Solution
There are five key factors you should consider when researching and evaluating single sign-on solutions:
Security Focused
In addition to enabling an easy login experience for users, SSO serves as a key point for enforcing security policies. The security administrator should be able to build and enforce application access policie
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