The Future of Campus Single Sign-On Warren Leung
Brief History WebAuth 90’s home grown Single Sign On (SSO) system Widely deployed on campus – 400+ applications Works only for applications hosted at UCI Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) – Shibboleth SAML 1.0 released in 2000’s OASIS Standard Federation enabled Gaining adoption – 100+ applications at UCI This is the next step forward
Why? Standards based Reduced application development overhead - no additional LDAP call for data Real-time data delivery at sign in Widely adopted world wide Federation Support Language agnostic Secure
Tentative Timeline End of October 2020 – 2021 2021 – 2022 Early 2022 New Look and Feel for WebAuth and Shibboleth UI 2020 – 2021 Provide training and how to documentation to assist users migrating New SSO integrations should be SAML based and not WebAuth Begin migrating WebAuth based applications to SAML 2021 – 2022 Migrate all remaining WebAuth Applications Early 2022 Shut down WebAuth
New UI
How does it work? https://www.secureauth.com/blog/introduction-to-saml
Working with the Shibboleth SP Install Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) Works on Apache, IIS, NGINX, Mac Update configuration files Read environmental variables at sign in
Questions?
Thank You warrenwl@uci.edu